Capacity evaluation and infrastructure planning techniques for heterogeneous railway traffic under structured, flexible and mixed operations.

Details

• Creators:
  Shih, Mei-Cheng ; Dick, C. T.
• Corporate Creators:
  National University Rail Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Vehicle capacity
  • Infrastructure
  • Transportation planning
  • Freight and passenger traffic
  • Evaluation
  • Railroad facility operations
  • Train operations
  • Traffic relationships
• Publication/ Report Number:
  Grant Number DTRT12-G-UTC18 (Grant 1)
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  National University Rail Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  The objective of this study is to develop new railway capacity evaluation tools and infrastructure planning techniques to address infrastructure or operations planning challenges under different operating styles. Three main research questions will be answered during the development of these tools: ; • What is the relationship between the operation style, variability of train priority and speed, and the capacity of a single-track line? ; • Can the properties of this relationship be used to gain insights on where to conduct capacity expansion projects or operational changes? ; • Can this relationship be used to better predict the distribution of train delay?
• Format:
  PDF
• Alternate URL:
  http://www.nurailcenter.org/research/final_reports/UIUC/NURail2012-UIUC-R05_Final_Report-revised-2017-01-22.pdf
• Funding:
  NURail Project ID NURail2012-UIUC-R05
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31850/dot_31850_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.47 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8f470255d07e6faab88903cd98766dc0ae3ec4593bd8704e9d1cb2d2cc454829