Author(s)

K. Sotek & R. Amcha

Abstract

The article gives a review about present situation and realization of information and management systems in railway transport. It concerns above all systems used at the Czech railway company. Next I pay attention to integration bindings among systems and perspectives of development in this field. Keywords: railway transport, computer technology, hardware, software, real time, direct control, information system. 1 Introduction Even in the past it was typical for transport and especially railway industry of the Czech Republic to use actively means of computer technology to facilitate processing of huge and very complicated tasks. Progressive development of hardware a software tools and especially networking at the level of INTRANET of Czech Railways made expansion of PC applications possible from very easy tasks to real-time direct contro

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