A Portability Study on Implementation Technologies by Comparing a Railway Simulator and an Aircraft FTD

Abstract

The paper introduces major technical specifications of the Line II railway simulators of Pusan City in Korea. Comparing design specifications of the railway simulators with those of the light aircraft Flight Training Device (FTD), the paper reveals commonality of implementation technologies applied to both simulators: Overall configurations and design philosophies are basically the same. In both programs VMEbus computing systems with UNIX are adopted as backbones of the simulators. It is found that the railway simulators are less stringent in real-time requirements than the aircraft FTD and the railway simulators are designed to be more event-driven and object-oriented. The experiences show that models may be diverse depending on the objects but implementation technologies are about the same. Maximizing portability of implementation technologies is a matter of an organization’s strategy of adopting standardized processes and modular technologies available and most economic to them.