This paper firstly presents a kind of design dealing with communicational protocol to the traction substation automation system based on CAN bus,and then comes up with the ideas that all frames of CAN communicational protocol should adopt the standard frame,and that messages be processed by two ways:sending initiatively and sending quiries.Subway and light rail application shows that the use of the CAN bus is possible to exchange data quickly and reliably between the layers of the middle and the communicational processing,hence to improve the safety and stability of traction substations.
