Computer Simulation in Real Time Rail Traffic Control – ABSTRACT
December 1983
Computer algorithms for assisting railroad train dispatchers to find minimum delay dispatching strategies on single track rail lines are developed. Train point to point running time prediction methods are evaluated and the variability in actual running times is measured from data. Uncertainty in train running times expressed as a percentage of train running times is explicitly considered in the planning algorithm. FORTRAN computer code implementing the algorithm is presented and documented in the Appendix.
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