DATENVERARBEITUNGS- UND BORDINFORMATIONSSYSTEM FUER EISENBAHNBETRIEB

The system contains stationary computers and mobile on-board computers able to communicate with one another, the stationary computer being a commercially available microcomputer with a keyboard, a display, a printer, a diskette memory and an interface for the connection of a large-scale electronic data- processing computer. At least one data module read-out apparatus (8) is connected to the stationary computer via an interface (9). The on-board computer contains a central unit (13), a clock generator, data modules connected to the central unit (13) via a bidirectional bus system and independent interfaces (14): the onboard computer also contains a locomotive data module (6), a train data module (7), a personnel data module (10), a line data module (19), and also a location identification module (25), connected to the central unit (13) via the interface (14), a sensor adaptor unit (22), display (18) and keyboard (17). A path signal transmitter (24) is connected to an axle of a locomotive belonging to the system, the output of this transmitter being connected to the input of the location identification module (25), and the location identification transmitters of the system are distributed along the railway lines at a defined distance from one another.