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Simulation Support of Railway Station Infrastructure Design
Authors: Adamko Norbert | Klima Valent | Márton Petr | Kavička Antonín
Year: 2005
Type of publication: článek v odborném periodiku
Name of source: Transport - Prace Naukowe
Publisher name: Wydawnictwo Institutu Technologii Eksploatacji - PIB
Place: Radom
Page from-to: 11-16
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cze Simulační podpora návrhu kolejové infrastruktury železničních stanic This article deals with advanced possibilities of problems solving by the design and optimization of railway station infrastructure. In this section we define needed terms, specify problems and summarize approaches that can be used to solve these problems We can mention following types of stations, which share common problems in the field of infrastructure planning and utilize the same approaches to their solution: (i) Marshalling yards; (ii) Passenger railway stations; (iii) Industry sidings; (iv) Locomotive and wagon depots; (iv) Combined terminals. In general a railway station infrastructure planning problem can be understood as a need to answer the question ?Which elements the infrastructure should be composed of and how to integrate these elements into the system??. This question is important by the realization of long-term, strategic plans and also by the effort to make the existing sta-tion operation more efficient. The strategic plans could be for example: (i) Decision to build new station or new part of station; (ii) Technical reconstruction of station infrastructure that is usually related to its elements modernization; (iii) Extension of infrastructure due to increase of its capacity (when an increase of service volume is expected); (iv) Reduction of infrastructure due to decrease of its capacity (when decrease of service volume is expected); (v) Decision of operation concentration to modern equipped station and related at-tenuation of other stations. As the operative reasons of infrastructure planning problems we can mention: (i) Detection that station operation is too expensive or station shows inadequate ca-pacity and optimization possibilities for mobile resources and technological processes are depleted; (ii) Operation shows that infrastructure is inappropriately dimensioned, e.g. some parts are bottlenecks or underused.
eng Simulation Support of Railway Station Infrastructure Design This article deals with advanced possibilities of problems solving by the design and optimization of railway station infrastructure. In this section we define needed terms, specify problems and summarize approaches that can be used to solve these problems We can mention following types of stations, which share common problems in the field of infrastructure planning and utilize the same approaches to their solution: (i) Marshalling yards; (ii) Passenger railway stations; (iii) Industry sidings; (iv) Locomotive and wagon depots; (iv) Combined terminals. In general a railway station infrastructure planning problem can be understood as a need to answer the question ?Which elements the infrastructure should be composed of and how to integrate these elements into the system??. This question is important by the realization of long-term, strategic plans and also by the effort to make the existing sta-tion operation more efficient. The strategic plans could be for example: (i) Decision to build new station or new part of station; (ii) Technical reconstruction of station infrastructure that is usually related to its elements modernization; (iii) Extension of infrastructure due to increase of its capacity (when an increase of service volume is expected); (iv) Reduction of infrastructure due to decrease of its capacity (when decrease of service volume is expected); (v) Decision of operation concentration to modern equipped station and related at-tenuation of other stations. As the operative reasons of infrastructure planning problems we can mention: (i) Detection that station operation is too expensive or station shows inadequate ca-pacity and optimization possibilities for mobile resources and technological processes are depleted; (ii) Operation shows that infrastructure is inappropriately dimensioned, e.g. some parts are bottlenecks or underused. Simulation, railway station infrastructure, strategic planning, medium-term planning