Developing standards for system and subsystem interfaces inelectric rail passenger vehicles

摘要

The Transportation Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) issponsoring a two year project whose objective is “to design aprocess for developing consensus standards (physical, logical andelectrical) for system and subsystem interfaces for elements of electricrail passenger vehicles (light rail, heavy rail and commuter railvehicles). Using the process, one or more standards will beproduced.” This paper identifies the key issues and constraintswhich must be dealt with in any serious standardization effort,describes the approach which will be taken to establish an ongoing railstandardization activity and concludes by giving a status report oncommittee activities to date. The key areas for standardisation includemicroprocessor based signalling systems, onboard communicationsprotocols, electrical couplers, brake and safety systems. The IEEEstandards process is outlined