From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4ed2c7e95a489b3f,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Subject: Ada in Railway Controls - looking for information Date: 1999/11/09 Message-ID: <80am32$nep@felix.seas.gwu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 546718522 X-Trace: grover.nit.gwu.edu 942201341 128.164.9.3 (Tue, 09 Nov 1999 21:35:41 EST) Organization: George Washington University NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 21:35:41 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: news@nit.gwu.edu Date: 1999-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, ACM SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Department of Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu - 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-4875 (fax) http://www.seas.gwu.edu/faculty/mfeldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Whaddya mean, the Air Traffic Control system won't run without a Microsoft browser??!!!" -- political cartoon, Washington Post, Jan. 3, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit http://www.acm.org/sigada/education or http://www.adapower.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------