Capacity of railway track, braking distance, headway and blocking time, organisation and train movement control, train traffic diagram, system running time, fleeting crossing
Abstract:
Track line capacity assesment, model operational situation with a system running time between IPT-nodes, calculation of traction energy savings compared with infrastructure costs for designing of fleeting crossing station, solving of capacity problem and blocking time in relation to train protection system, robustness of timetable, system concept of freight train paths, guidelines for centralised operational traffic control and management.
Objectives:
Students should be able to design systematical proposals of operational concepts and infrastructure improvements arising therefrom - system running time, designing of crossing stations - and to quantify expenses incurred, and to quantify cost of the operational concept. In designed station they should be able to evaluate the station blocking time.