Interesting: Seoul subway to give train drivers real-time views of upcoming stations
By adamg - 11/11/09 - 10:12 am
You know, so if, say, a drunken woman has just fallen on the tracks, the operator can apply the brakes immediately. They'll be using wireless-mesh technology (basically, lots of little wireless access ports all over the place) to give drivers real-time views (in Seoul's case, the impetus was not somebody lying on the tracks, but a train that entered a station just as another train was being engulfed in an arson fire).
Via The Transit Wire.
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Notice that the Korean
By anon (not verified) - 11/11/09 - 12:11 pm
Notice that the Korean system will also allow the transit control center to look real time through the cameras on-board the trains.
Seoul even utilizes what are
By Scotty (not verified) - 11/11/09 - 12:46 pm
Seoul even utilizes what are called platform screen doors at some stations. This would have 100% prevented what happened at North Station.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_screen_doors
When will we see something like these on the T?
Platform screen doors
By Ron Newman - 11/11/09 - 3:56 pm
can't work on the Red LIne with current equipment, because older cars have 3 doors while newer ones have 4 doors.
Not absolutely impossible
By eeka - 11/11/09 - 9:03 pm
Have an arrangement of six doors. All of them could even open each time, since once the train is there, it doesn't matter if someone is walking from the platform through a door into the side of a train.
Hell, the entire platform could even have a roller-type door that opened up above the cars or above the platform like a garage door.
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No reason to over think it.
By J - 11/12/09 - 3:35 am
No reason to over think it. The old red line cars are very old, so theyll be replaced soon enough.
The only station I think theyd actually be very useful at is park street, which is narrow but can get very crowded. And if the MBTA ever decided to get them, they should go for the gates, not the full size doors, as the wind helps ventilate the stations (and its cheaper)
Low tech solution
By Charelie (not verified) - 11/11/09 - 5:59 pm
It appears to me that they are using a lower tech solution on the Orange line. There is now an additional person on lookout at the front door of the trains I have seen today, in addition to the drivers.
So two people at the front
By Rhonin (not verified) - 11/11/09 - 9:05 pm
So two people at the front of the train? Sound more like easy work at exorbitant pay to me...