SIMULATION OF RAILWAY OPERATION THROUGH JUNCTIONS AND IN SMALL TERMINALS

The plans of stations and railway junctions are drawn up on the basis of certain traffic hypotheses, allowing, as a precaution, for a reasonable risk of saturation. In order to calculate this risk, the Swiss Federal Railways have prepared a model enabling the traffic to be simulated in the case of different track lay-outs, and different systems of signalling and regulation of traffic. The model includes a decision algorithm, and criteria enabling the quality of the results obtained in regard to the running of trains to be established. The above article contains details of the data fed into the computer in order to deal with the problem, as well as information concerning the Simula programme introduced, and the replies produced by the computer. This method has been widely applied, particularly in Zurich and Berne, and has been shown to be profitable.

• Corporate Authors:

  International Railway Congress Association

  17-21 rue de Louvrain
  1000 Brussels,   Belgium 
• Publication Date: 1970-11

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 744-750
• Serial:
  • RAIL INTERNATIONAL

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Railroad terminals; Railroad yards; Simulation
• Identifier Terms: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00047738
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Association of American Railroads
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 14 1974 12:00AM