The Simulated Railroad Framework Project

Welcome at the Simulated Railroad Framework project.

• Project's Details and Discussion

• Introduction

• SrrTrains's Blog (Additional Features)

Summary

This project's intention was to deliver an open source framework for virtual (model) railroads that are based on VRML/X3D and especially on the network sensor concept of the Web3D consortium (please refer to http://www.web3d.org).

The main goals of this project were the gain of know how and the experimental implementation of the SRR Framework (Simulated Railroad Framework).

A future intention could be to migrate the base module of the SRR Framework from the application layer downwards to the Web3D Browser (we call this idea SMUOS – Simple Multiuser Online Scenes -, please refer to the SMUOS Blog for further information).

This project had developed two items of "soft"ware, before it was stopped in pre-alpha state:

1. The concept SrrTrains (please refer to the Concepts' Descriptions)

2. The experimental SRR Framework (a set of X3D prototypes – pls. refer to Sourceforge Download),
   which is a central item of software within the context of the concept SrrTrains.
   However, it may be imagined the SRR Framework could be useful for other use cases, too.

Important Note: This project has been STOPPED, after it had reached the main goals. Further goals will not be reached due to lack of manpower.

Reached Goals:

• A basic concept has been developed for SMUOS and for SrrTrains

• Naming rules have been defined

• Models and objects were implemented experimentally

• Modules (static and dynamic) were implemented experimentally

• Example SRR objects were implemented experimentally

• A tracer was implemented experimentally

• A console interface can be provided by SRR Objects

• Modularity of the SRR framework

• Documentation of the concept

Missed Goals:

• Dynamic models

• Handover

• Moving modules

• Real multibrowser capability

• Authoring support

Last Update of this Page

2013-01-04