From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Ada in Railway Controls - looking for information
Date: 1999/11/09
Date: 1999-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80am32$nep@felix.seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
Hi all,
It is, by now, fairly well known that much of the software for Paris
Metro Line 14 ("Meteor") is in Ada. This is one example of
"Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC)", developed by a
company called Matra.
There are a number of CBTC products out there, in an industry that
is very aggressive and competitive.
I am trying to discover whether Ada is the (or at least _a_) coding
language in the following CBTC products:
- Alcatel's SELTRAC, used in Vancouver SkyTrain and Docklands
Light Rail, among others - will be used in San Francisco and
New York's JFK Airport Light Rail
- Matra's SACEM - the system that preceded Meteor
- Matra's PA 135
Also, what became of ASTREE, the project that was written up at
http://www.adaic.org/docs/flyers/train.shtml
which came from the old Rational newsletter.
If you know anything that could help me out here, please reply
by e-mail to mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu. I will, of course, respect
confidentiality.
If anyone is interested in CBTC, a good website is at
http://www.tsd.org/communic
Among other things, you can read about the current state of things
in the New York Subway CBTC project.
Cheers,
Michael Feldman
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