Improvement of train transportation performance by convoy signaling

Yingbo Zhao, Philip Orlik (), Kieran Parsons (), Kenji Kataoka () and Tamas Kalmar-Nagy ()
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Yingbo Zhao: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA†Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Philip Orlik: #x2020;Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Kieran Parsons: #x2020;Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Kenji Kataoka: #x2020;Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Tamas Kalmar-Nagy: #x2021;Department of Fluid Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2016, vol. 27, issue 07, 1-13

Abstract: In this paper, we compare the transportation performance of a given railway for three types of signaling system: fixed-block signaling, moving-block signaling and train-convoy signaling. The transportation performance is evaluated from two aspects: track capacity and robustness to delays. The transportation performance is computed using numerical method and a new cellular automaton model is proposed to simulate the behavior of a train. The simulation results show that train-convoy signaling can improve track capacity and robustness to delays, at the same time, compared to fixed-block signaling and moving-block signaling.

Keywords: Train convoy signaling; cellular automation model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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