RTRI REPORT Sep. 2006
REVIEW

Recent State of Researches on Power Supply Technology for Electric Railways

Takefumi SHIMADA


  RTRI has carried out a number of researches on power supply technology for electric railways. This paper has outlined such recent studies on the power supply systems meeting with the requirements: low-cost system, system reliability, harmony with environment, and basic research. Some of the researches with result in practical application in near future.


* Full papers of RTRI Report are written in Japanese.

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