Development Status of International Standards on the Rail Track and the Trend of the Related Research of RTRI

Abstract

The railway business is now one of the global growth industries. Even in Japan, overseas deployment of railway technology including the Indian high-speed railway is rapidly progressing, but the difference between European forces preceding in international standards and Japan is still large. Therefore, in order to respond to the further globalization of the railway business, Japan must also actively participate in international standard development. In this paper, the author introduce the activities of RTRI's track technology department for the development of the rail track international standards.