WIT Press

COSMOS (computerized Safety, Maintenance And Operation System Of The Shinkansen)

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

37

Pages

10

Published

1998

Size

1,592 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/CR981031

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

Hirokazu Sano, Jim Shirayama, Yutaka Fuchi & Sumiyuki Okazaki

Abstract

We have developed and begun to use a new integrated computer system named COSMOS for the operation and management of the Shinkansen. The trigger to have developed this system was that the previous computer systems named COMTRAC and SMIS became out of date so that they could not cope with the extension of the Shinkansen network. However, we did not simply intend to replace these systems. Taking advantage of t

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