Railway Network Timetabling and Dynamic Traffic Management

The paper discusses the current state of research concerning railway network timetabling and traffic management. Timetable effectiveness is governed by frequency, regularity, accurate running, recovery and layover times, as well as minimal headway, buffer times and waiting times. Analytic (queuing) models and stochastic micro-simulation are predominantly used for estimation of waiting times and capacity consumption anlong corridors and in stations, while combinatorial models and stability analysis are suitable for network timetable optimisation

Keywords:

timetabling , attratciveness , waiting times , punctuality , conflict detection , traffic management