Developing Integrated Tools to Optimise Railway systems: An overview
Developing Integrated Tools to Optimise Railway systems: An overview
This paper provides an overview of the DITTO (Developing Integrated Tools to Optimise) project and presents some of its initial findings. The aim of DITTO is to increase the practical capacity of railway systems by developing computerised tools that can determine the theoretical capacity of a given infrastructure, optimise timetables in the face of delays and optimise real-time traffic management in situation of both fixed block and moving block signalling. Some prototype tools are developed and applied to the East Coast Main Line (ECML) railway in the UK. In particular, a stochastic version of job shop scheduling is applied to the station of Peterborough. It is found that additional services can be provided on the local network but at the expense of service performance. However, when a wider network area is considered, the number of feasible additional services appears to be much reduced
Preston, Jonathan
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Kovacs, Attila
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James, Phillip
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Preston, Jonathan
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Kovacs, Attila
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Preston, Jonathan, Kovacs, Attila, James, Phillip and Ye, Hongbo
(2017)
Developing Integrated Tools to Optimise Railway systems: An overview.
7th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis, Congress Center "Lille Grand Palais", Lille, France.
04 - 07 Apr 2017.
22 pp
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This paper provides an overview of the DITTO (Developing Integrated Tools to Optimise) project and presents some of its initial findings. The aim of DITTO is to increase the practical capacity of railway systems by developing computerised tools that can determine the theoretical capacity of a given infrastructure, optimise timetables in the face of delays and optimise real-time traffic management in situation of both fixed block and moving block signalling. Some prototype tools are developed and applied to the East Coast Main Line (ECML) railway in the UK. In particular, a stochastic version of job shop scheduling is applied to the station of Peterborough. It is found that additional services can be provided on the local network but at the expense of service performance. However, when a wider network area is considered, the number of feasible additional services appears to be much reduced
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Accepted/In Press date: 20 January 2017
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7th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis, Congress Center "Lille Grand Palais", Lille, France, 2017-04-04 - 2017-04-07
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Attila Kovacs
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Phillip James
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Hongbo Ye
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