Commencing this autumn, the railway platform system Dokodemo Door under development by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Transportation Equipment Engineering & Service Co., Ltd. will undergo verification testing on an operating rail line. Dokodemo Door is a platform door system designed to address the problematic issue of accommodating railway lines that operate carriages having varying numbers of doors and door positions.
With the cooperation of Keikyu Corporation, testing will be performed at platform no. 1 of Miurakaigan Station on the company’s Keikyu Kurihama Line.
For the new round of verification testing, prototype platform doors are being fabricated based on the results of in-house verification. These will be installed at platform no. 1 of Miurakaigan Station over a length equivalent to one railway car. Testing will target verification of the Dokodemo Door’s simple interface system enabling easy opening/closing of the platform doors relying solely on platform-installed equipment, without need for railway car modification. It will also seek to confirm the new system’s durability performance under actual operating conditions.
Through the scheduled round of testing, Mitsubishi looks to confirm Dokodemo Door’s safety and durability performance as a prelude to providing platform door systems that respond to the operating needs of a wide variety of railway cars used on railway lines having no TASC (train automatic stopping controller) systems.
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