Systems Approach in the Japanese National Railways : How was the Systems Integration of Shinkansen Done?

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• The Tokaido Shinkansen, a high-speed railway system connecting Tokyo and Osaka, was one of the most prominent successes of large-scale engineering in postwar Japan. When engineers in the Japanese National Railways (JNR) constructed it in the late 1950s and the early 1960s, however, they knew little about formalized methods of systems engineering. Their conception of systems was more congruent with the vision of cybernetics, in which railways were seen as organic, decentralized entities, than the formalized, centralized approach of systems engineering. To integrate the Tokaido Shinkansen, they tacitly practiced a partial equivalent of systems engineering, but they also drew on experiential judgments of their own and a flexible style of cooperation based on the sense of trust among themselves. In doing so, they overcame the harm of entrenched sectionalism and stubborn experientialism in JNR, while still benefiting from the strengths of those old values, which had supported JNR's operation for nearly a century.

• 日本科学史学会の論文
• 2007-12-31

著者

• Sato Yasushi

  Jsps (japan Society For The Promotion Of Science):graduate School Of Arts And Sciences University Of Tokyo

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