The concept of the smart wagon for improving the safety of a railroad transportation system

Joffrey Clarhaut , Saïd Hayat , Blaise Conrard (1) , Vincent Cocquempot (1)

1 STF - Systèmes Tolérants aux Fautes

This article introduces the concept of the smart railroad wagon, modeled from smart components. This concept can meet the safe requirements of the railroad complex system. Indeed, adding features to the railroad wagon reduces the risk of accidents induced by the truck transportation. In this article, the concept and the functional model of this railroad wagon are also presented and they illustrate the usefulness of this concept in relation with two rail accidents of the 1990s.

Joffrey Clarhaut, Saïd Hayat, Blaise Conrard, Vincent Cocquempot. The concept of the smart wagon for improving the safety of a railroad transportation system. 12th IFAC LSS Symposium Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications, Jul 2010, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. pp.CDROM. ⟨hal-00710690⟩