RAILWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL BASED ON INTER-TRAIN CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

The research here developed a heuristic algorithm for railway traffic control based on inter-train conflict management. The kernel of the heuristic is the immediate inter-train conflict, which is detected using discrete-event and continuous simulation, sequentially, and its resolution. The researchers used a look-ahead method to make a decision on selecting one of the alternative resolutions of the immediate conflict, which causes less consequential overall delay in the system. A new concept used in this heuristic is dynamic priority, which is a model of decision behavior of a train dispatcher at resolving conflicts, using some evolutionary attributes of trains. A linear programming technique was used to solve a multi-attribute choice model, in order to reproduce preferences of the train dispatcher.

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  Transportation Research Forum

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• Authors:
  • Sahin, I
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Forum, 37th Annual Conference, 2 Volumes
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois
  • Date: 1995-10-19 to 1995-10-21
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 608-626

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Dispatching; Dynamic positioning; Heuristic methods; Psychological conflict; Railroad traffic
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Railroads; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00726853
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Volume 2
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 17 1996 12:00AM