1. Proceedings
  2. I3M
  3. 2019
  4. EMSS
  5. 10.46354/i3m.2019.emss.025

Investigating the influence of fixed assignment of platform tracks to trains on the resulting station capacity using simulation

  • a Michael Bažant  ,
  • b Josef Bulíček  ,
  • c Petr Veselý  
  • a,c Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
  • b Faculty of Transport Engineering, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Cite as
Bažant M., Bulíček J., Veselý P.  (2019). Investigating the influence of fixed assignment of platform tracks to trains on the resulting station capacity using simulation. Proceedings of the 31st European Modeling & Simulation Symposium (EMSS 2019), pp. 168-173. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2019.emss.025.

Abstract

The paper focuses on the simulation assessment of the operation of a railway station with mixed passenger and freight traffic whereas various options how to assign tracks for considered trains are presented with assessed results. As a base variant of tracks assignments is considered variable tracks assignment that is applied nowadays in the Czech Republic. There are also presented variant with mixed approach – subset of trains is organized with variable tracks assignments, but another subset of trains is organized with fixed assignments and results of various scenarios are presented.

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