JR-EAST:Research and Development

Technical Review

JR EAST Technical Review No.13-Winter 2009

We published this JR East Technical Review to provide information of our R&D. We expect more people be informed about the characteristics of our R&D, and thereby to encourage people to suggest how the progress can be made if new technologies are applied at our R&D efforts.

Special edition theme
Aiming to Create New Customer Value and Future Stations

CONTENTS

Special feature article

Creating Customer Value Together with Users

Fumio Hasegawa
Director, Frontier Service Development Laboratory,
Research and Development Center of JR East Group

[PDF/84KB]

Research and Development with an Aim of
Creating New Customer Value and Future Stations

Junichi Urano
Deputy Director, Frontier Service Development Laboratory,
Research and Development Center of JR East Group

[PDF/1.15MB]

Special edition paper

Research and Development on Travel and Consumption in and around Stations in the Greater Tokyo Area

Mika Nakahito and Yukiko Ono

[PDF/1.52MB]

Research and Development on Suica Cards with a Display Function

Sei Sakairi and Masafumi Sato

[PDF/442KB]

Research and Development on Information-Providing Services for Stations

Hideaki Michita, Masaaki Tanabe and Takeshi Nakagawa

[PDF/518KB]

Research and Development on Providing Easy-to-Understand
Train Operation Information

Takeshi Nakagawa, Fuminori Tsunoda and Makoto Matsunaga

[PDF/227KB]

For Smoother Use of Railway Stations

Takehisa Suzuki, Yuri Nakagawa and Atsushi Sakai

[PDF/812KB]

Special edition theme
Future Railway Maintenance Technologies

CONTENTS

Special feature article

"Visible" Maintenance

Yozo Fujino
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,
School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo

[PDF/139KB]

Efforts in Research and Development Related to
Maintenance Technology

Tatsuo Odaka
Director, Technical Center,
Research and Development Center of JR East Group

[PDF/606KB]

Interpretive article

Development of TC Type Insulated Overlaps

Kentaro Nishi
Electric Power Facilities Group, Technical Center,
Research and Development Center of JR East Group

[PDF/623KB]

Research and Development toward Wear Reduction of Current Collecting System

Nobuyuki Yokoyama
Manager, Rolling Stock Group, Technical Center,
Research and Development Center of JR East Group

[PDF/689KB]

Special edition paper

Development of the Ground Fault Protective Relay
That Uses No Auxiliary Energizing Source

Masami Hino and Akira Horiguchi

[PDF/1.69MB]

Development of the Next Generation Turnout for Cold Regions

Kazuhiro Izumi, Yuichiro Hori and Takehiko Ukai

[PDF/433KB]

Development of a Portable Under-Track Hollow Detector

Shiro Haba and Takeki Saito

[PDF/1.00MB]

We are looking forward for many suggestions and advices. If you have any further questions about the JR East Technical Review, please feel free to contact us.

For Inquiries:
E-mail:tech-review2@jreast.co.jp
Editors of JR East Technical Review
Technology and Planning Department
East Japan Railway Company
2-2 Yoyogi 2cho-me, Sibuya-ku Tokyo 151-8578, Japan

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