摘要 |
A control system for a rail vehicle with a plurality of cars has at least one central control device for controlling vehicle-wide functions based on global information, and a set of decentralized car control devices, each containing a local sub-information of the global information during operation. The control system has a redundancy which is sufficient relative to availability requirements and which is achieved cost-effectively and with minimal effort. A data connection apparatus having connection segments, which connect car control devices of adjacent cars in pairs to produce data transfer in at least one transfer direction. The paired car control devices and the connection segments form, in the transfer direction, a data chain that is cumulative in respect of the sub-information and there is at least one identifying unit which detects and evaluates data of the data chain to form the global information. |