Railway operations, time-tabling and control

Marin Marinov, İsmail Şahin, Stefano Ricci and Gordana Vasic-Franklin

Research in Transportation Economics, 2013, vol. 41, issue 1, 59-75

Abstract: This paper concentrates on organising, planning and managing the train movement in a network. The three classic management levels for rail planning, i.e., strategic, tactical and operational, are introduced followed by decision support systems for rail traffic control. In addition, included in this paper are discussions on train operating forms, railway traffic control and train dispatching problems, rail yard technical schemes and performance of terminals, as well as timetable design. A description of analytical methods, simulation techniques and specific computer packages for analysing and evaluating the behaviour of rail systems and networks is also provided.

Keywords: Rail operations; Trains; Operating forms; Timetables; DSS; Rail yards; Stations; Networks; Analytical models; Simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2012.10.003

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