关键词: 智慧轨道交通, 智能化系统, 数字化, 全联网

Abstract: This paper advocated using the concept of Smart Rail Transportation (SRT) to describe future vision of "high-efficient, fast & convenient, safe, visual, predictable, ecological, and smart" rail transportation industry as a macro-system together with an organizational framework for SRT. This framework is composed of three parts: A) an Intelligent Ground Infrastructure for SRT(SRT-IGI) plus Smart Trains aiming at "in-depth sensing & perceiving"; B) the Internet of Things (IoT) for SRT acting as a common platform for information exchange and resource sharing and aiming at extensive interconnectivity and interoperability among human beings, computers, and physical objects; and C) the top layer a Human-Computer Amalgamated Intelligent Management, Decision-making, and Commanding (HCA-IMDC) system for SRT aiming at premier intelligent data processing. All these three components with their distributed intelligent processing power make the rail transportation "smart". Technical connotation of the three components was analyzed in details. In view of that no comprehensive work on smart rail transportation from view of Information Technology (IT) has been found so far, the authors wish that this framework could provide a basis for further discussion on this subject and contribute to the leap-forward development for rail transportation in our country.

Key words: Smart Rail Transportation (SRT), intelligent system, digitizing, the Internet of Things (IoT)