A Preliminary Investigation of Railway Signaling Methods by Computer Simulation Studies

J. R. Askew, J. E. Beardwood and D. Newby
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J. R. Askew: Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith, Dorchester, Dorset, U.K.
J. E. Beardwood: Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith, Dorchester, Dorset, U.K.
D. Newby: Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith, Dorchester, Dorset, U.K.

Transportation Science, 1968, vol. 2, issue 3, 191-212

Abstract: This paper describes studies performed as an introduction to the problems of railway signaling. It includes a description of the digital computer model set up to deal with signaling procedures, together with the results of three exercises in its use. These exercises, in addition to demonstrating the usefulness of the model, have highlighted the interaction between the effectiveness of a signaling regime and the control strategy adopted in responding to it. It is thus possible that track-to-train communication could be used to transmit not only that information necessitated by the signaling regime but also the information needed to achieve the desired control strategy. Some actual problems that might be resolved by studies of this type are considered. In order to undertake these, however, a much fuller study reproducing all the relevant operating conditions would be needed.

Date: 1968
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