The Development of Supervising System for Train Operation by Imaging Pictures

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Japan(MLIT) has decided to make railway authorities establish the monitoring system for train operation in a few years by suffering the fatal railway accidents occurred last year. Furthermore, MLIT showed this recorder´s basic specifications in the Japanese Law of Shorei (technical standard). At receiving this situation, many railway authorities are preparing to develop their monitoring systems that are already operated for adapting these specifications. However, in some authorities, major improvements are required for vehicles to adapt this regulation, and this can cause a new risk of safety. Therefore, we are developing a new monitoring system for train operation that uses imaging pictures because not of major alterations of vehicle. This paper describes the outline of this system and the result of running tests