Addressing nodal constraints on railway capacity
Addressing nodal constraints on railway capacity
As demand for passenger and freight transport on Britain’s railways increases, providing additional capacity and making the best use of the existing infrastructure are priorities for the industry. Since the stations and junctions forming the nodes of the railway network tend to form the constraints on route and network capacity, improved understanding of their operation and capacity characteristics is particularly important.
This paper describes research undertaken to improve the understanding of nodal capacity and capacity utilisation, and to route and schedule trains more efficiently through nodes, thus improving service quality and/or releasing capacity for additional train services.
Railways, Capacity, Capacity Utilisation, Nodes, Stations, Junctions, Trains, Re-scheduling, Re-routeing
637-646
Armstrong, John
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Preston, Jonathan
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Potts, Christopher
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Bektas, Tolga
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Paraskevopoulos, D.
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Preston, Jonathan
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Potts, Christopher
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Bektas, Tolga
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Paraskevopoulos, D.
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Armstrong, John, Preston, Jonathan, Potts, Christopher, Bektas, Tolga and Paraskevopoulos, D.
(2017)
Addressing nodal constraints on railway capacity.
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, 231 (5), .
(doi:10.1177/0954409717706271).
Abstract
As demand for passenger and freight transport on Britain’s railways increases, providing additional capacity and making the best use of the existing infrastructure are priorities for the industry. Since the stations and junctions forming the nodes of the railway network tend to form the constraints on route and network capacity, improved understanding of their operation and capacity characteristics is particularly important.
This paper describes research undertaken to improve the understanding of nodal capacity and capacity utilisation, and to route and schedule trains more efficiently through nodes, thus improving service quality and/or releasing capacity for additional train services.
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Addressing nodal constraints on railway capacity
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Accepted/In Press date: 11 March 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 9 May 2017
Published date: May 2017
Keywords:
Railways, Capacity, Capacity Utilisation, Nodes, Stations, Junctions, Trains, Re-scheduling, Re-routeing
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Decision Analytics & Risk, Operational Research, Transportation Group
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/406730
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Tolga Bektas
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D. Paraskevopoulos
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