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From: Michael Feldman <mfeldman@gwu.edu>
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Subject: Ada/SPARK in railway signaling (was: Blurb re: AdaCore in
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Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:22:51 -0800
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Martyn Pike wrote:

>>Mike Fedman wrote:

[snip]

>> P.S. Please write -- to the newsgroup or just to me -- if you're aware
>> of any current projects in the rail industry, using Ada or SPARK or
>> related products like CodePeer. Projects in the U.S. would be especially
>> interesting. Naturally I will respect confidentiality.
>
> The Victoria Line DTG-R is written in Ada and SPARK.
>
> Now supporting 34 trains per hour !
>
> http://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2014/june/victoria-line-upgrade-helps-to-deliver-most-frequent-train-service-in-uk
>
>
> Martyn

The linked article mentions new signaling on the Northern Line as well. Is this 
the same Ada/SPARK software as on the Victoria? Any other new Underground 
signaling in the works?

Thanks very much for this info. I'll make a poster ASAP, for the SIGAda poster 
gallery linked from

http://sigada.org/

Mike Feldman