IEEE Rail Transit Vehicle Interface Standards Committee

 

WG9 STANDARD P1544

TRANSIT COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACE PROFILES FOR RAIL APPLICATIONS

 

Eleventh Meeting, July.21. , 2000

Booz-Allen & Hamilton

Columbia Square Bldg.

555 13th Street, N.W.

Suite 480 East

Washington, DC 20004

Contact Person:Karl Berger

202-879-8736 or 703-247-6543

 

The building is immediately above the F and 12th Street Exit of the Metro Center subway station.  Walk straight ahead from the Metro exit.  The exit is under an overhang of the Columbia Square Building.  Turn left at the middle of the block into the entrance foyer.  Take the East Tower elevator to the fourth floor.

 

Metro Center is served by the Blue, Orange and Red lines.  The Blue line provides service from National Airport.  The Red line connects to Union Station.

 

 

9:00 -9:10 AM

            Introductions, Meeting Purpose

 

9:10-9:20 AM

            Chair Handover

 

9:20-9:40 AM

      

Report on WG2 views concerning establishing an off-vehicle non-CBTC  communications protocol standard - Tom McGean.

Status of Gateway Proposal - Tom McGean

 

 

9:40 –10:30AM

            Database Design Strategy -identify key fields and proper relationships

 

10:30AM - 11:00 AM

Report on WMATA maintenance & diagnostics LonWorks system - Karl Berger

 

11:00AM - Noon

Reports on Data Elements:

 

Report on harmonizing discrepancies between R142 and IEEE 1475 data elements - Dave Phelps and Jim Lyke.

 

Report on locomotive data elements - John Ewing

 

Report on data elements being used on new N.E. Corridor trains - Christian Girard

 

Report of Fred Woolsey and Jim Lyke on progress integrating complete data base

(Report on the refined list of non motor control data elements in key functional areas (Doors, Lighting, Current Collection, basic Passenger Information) and its integration with the propulsion and braking data elements (including those from Phelps, Lyke and Ewing) to complete the interoperability data base )

 

Noon to IPM   Break for Lunch

 

1:00 PM to 3:30 PM

 

Line X Line Review of List of Data Elements for Car to Car Interoperability with review of any written comments received concerning data base  - Fred Woolsey

 

3:30 PM to 3:40 PM

Status of Jim Kemp work item to identify from the total family of potential rail TCIP data elements those which communicate outside of the rail system in real time and are thus priorities for WG9 standardization - Tom McGean

 

3:40 PM to 4:20PM

            New Business

            Meeting Time and Place, next meeting

            Adjourn