Investigating the influence of fixed assignment of platform tracks to trains on the resulting station capacity using simulation

The paper focuses on the simulation assessment of the operation of a railway station with mixed passenger and freight traffic whereas various options how to assign tracks for considered trains are presented with assessed results. As a base variant of tracks assignments is considered variable tracks assignment that is applied nowadays in the Czech Republic. There are also presented variant with mixed approach – subset of trains is organized with variable tracks assignments, but another subset of trains is organized with fixed assignments and results of various scenarios are presented.