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Simulation of Railway Traffic Control
Author(s) -
Weits E.A.G.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international transactions in operational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.032
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1475-3995
pISSN - 0969-6016
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-3995.1998.tb00129.x
Subject(s) - train , computer science , control (management) , crew , traffic bottleneck , traffic optimization , traffic generation model , traffic congestion reconstruction with kerner's three phase theory , traffic simulation , transport engineering , network traffic simulation , traffic conflict , floating car data , operations research , simulation , network traffic control , engineering , real time computing , traffic congestion , computer network , microsimulation , artificial intelligence , cartography , aeronautics , network packet , geography
Traffic control is the centre of the railway traffic system. The success of a railway traffic simulation model depends very much on an adequate modelling of the traffic control. The main objective of a traffic control system is to minimise delays. Important tasks which contribute to this goal are controlling connections between trains, deciding about priorities and controlling the rotations of crew and rolling stock. In this paper, we discuss a simulation model of railway traffic which is centred around the traffic control functions. It is observed that an object‐oriented approach to the modelling of traffic control presents itself as very natural. It results in a very flexible model, which can accomodate a range of present and future traffic control systems. Finally, we present some results of a simulation study that investigates the possibility of partially automating traffic control.