Title :
Priority alarm system [for passenger railways]
Author :
Hale, Peter ; Weber, Paul
Author_Institution :
Go Transit, Toronto, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
The travelling public needs to be able to raise an alarm in the instance of personal safety, health concerns or to report an observation about the safety of equipment in their vicinity. The priority alarm system is a means of displaying information to the crew for conditions in their consist of passenger cars, which can be multiplexed on existing train lines
Keywords :
alarm systems; railways; safety; safety systems; electric multiple units; equipment safety; health concerns; information display; multiplexing; passenger cars; passenger railways; personal safety; priority alarm system; train lines; Alarm systems; Computer displays; Health and safety; Lakes; Rails; Safety devices; Smoke detectors; Urban areas; Vehicle detection; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Railroad Conference, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 ASME/IEEE Joint
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4852-4
DOI :
10.1109/RRCON.1998.668100
