JR East aims for driverless Shinkansen operation

High-speed Railway Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.hspr.2024.08.003

Yasuaki Suzuki

{"title":"JR East aims for driverless Shinkansen operation","authors":"Yasuaki Suzuki","doi":"10.1016/j.hspr.2024.08.003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>East Japan Railway Company (JR East) is aiming to “realize driverless train operation” as one of the key measures to respond to rapid changes in the business environment. Currently, Automatic Train Operation (ATO) equipment is not installed on the Shinkansen, but there are plans to introduce ATO or driverless operation in the near future. From 2018–2021, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) held the “ATO Technology Study Group for Railways” in which the concept of technical requirements necessary for driverless operation was discussed. In 2021, JR East conducted the GOA4 demonstration test on the Joetsu Shinkansen. In this test, we were able to confirm the basic functions of Shinkansen vehicles such as automatic departure control, speed control, fixed position stop control, and remote stop control using ATO. We aim to realize unattended operation (GOA4) for deadhead trains between Niigata Station and the Niigata Shinkansen Rolling Stock Center by the end of the 2020 s, and driverless operation (GOA3) for passenger trains of the Joetsu Shinkansen by the mid-2030s and continue to develop the necessary technologies and build systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100607,"journal":{"name":"High-speed Railway","volume":"2 3","pages":"Pages 197-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"High-speed Railway","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949867824000564","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

East Japan Railway Company (JR East) is aiming to “realize driverless train operation” as one of the key measures to respond to rapid changes in the business environment. Currently, Automatic Train Operation (ATO) equipment is not installed on the Shinkansen, but there are plans to introduce ATO or driverless operation in the near future. From 2018–2021, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) held the “ATO Technology Study Group for Railways” in which the concept of technical requirements necessary for driverless operation was discussed. In 2021, JR East conducted the GOA4 demonstration test on the Joetsu Shinkansen. In this test, we were able to confirm the basic functions of Shinkansen vehicles such as automatic departure control, speed control, fixed position stop control, and remote stop control using ATO. We aim to realize unattended operation (GOA4) for deadhead trains between Niigata Station and the Niigata Shinkansen Rolling Stock Center by the end of the 2020 s, and driverless operation (GOA3) for passenger trains of the Joetsu Shinkansen by the mid-2030s and continue to develop the necessary technologies and build systems.

查看原文本刊更多论文

JR 东日本力争实现新干线无人驾驶

东日本旅客铁道公司（JR 东日本）将 "实现列车无人驾驶 "作为应对快速变化的商业环境的关键措施之一。目前，新干线上尚未安装列车自动运行（ATO）设备，但计划在不久的将来引进ATO或无人驾驶运行。2018-2021 年，国土交通省召开了 "铁路 ATO 技术研究会"，讨论了无人驾驶运行所需的技术要求概念。2021 年，JR 东日本在上越新干线上进行了 GOA4 演示测试。在这次试验中，我们确认了新干线车辆的基本功能，如自动出发控制、速度控制、固定位置停车控制和使用 ATO 的远程停车控制。我们的目标是到 2020 年代末，在新潟站和新潟新干线车辆中心之间的去程列车上实现无人驾驶（GOA4），到 2030 年代中期，在上越新干线的旅客列车上实现无人驾驶（GOA3），并继续开发必要的技术和构建系统。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

High-speed Railway

自引率

0.00%

发文量