Railway junction traffic control by heuristic methods

Real-time traffic control in railway systems

Despite the constantly increasing demand of passengers and goods transport in Europe, the share of railway traffic is decreasing. One major reason appears to be congestion, which in turn results in frequent delays and in a general unreliability of the system. This fact has triggered the study of efficient ways to manage railway traffic, both off-line and real-time, by means of optimization and ...

Heuristic Algorithm for Priority Traffic Signal Control

consider the multiple requests for priority in a way that is not disruptive, or inefficient, to other traffic. Other factors, such as occupancy and schedule adherence, are important considerations that can be used to manage which priority requests should be served, but it is still likely that multiple transit vehicles will desire priority service. The approach presented in this paper is an inte...

Railway Traffic Management

With the growing interest in the railway sector, mainly because of energetic reasons, there is also a need to increase the efficiency of the railway lines. One way to optimize this sector is to improve quality in the train control process itself. Nowadays, train dispatching is still mostly done by human operators that use elementary tools and thereby solving conflicts sub-optimally. Motivated b...

Railway traffic flow optimisation with differing control systems

Scaling, Modeling and Traffic Control of a Real Railway Network using Max-plus Algebra and Model Predictive Control

Delay time recovery can increase the efficiency of the railway network and increase the attractiveness of railway transport against other transportation systems. This article presents a new dynamical model of railway system. The proposed model is a discrete event systems that is defined based on the deviation of travel time and deviation of stop time of trains. Due to the existence of multiple ...