Colloquium
IT10.rail: 21-23 January 2010 | Colloquium | SMA Colloquium | Lecture english
Visualisation and comparison of timetable variants
As planners go about developing timetables, even in early design phases, they want to determine and show future service quality.
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Passenger flows in stations: a new challenge for capacity planning
Increasing capacity on the rails can mean trouble for passenger facilities. If the  infrastructure can’t handle large numbers of passengers, people getting on and off trains will get in each other’s way. This makes for longer dwell and total travel times for which only costly line infrastructure improvements can compensate.
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Cost-benefit evaluation of timetables
A central factor in evaluating timetables is the cost-benefit ratio.

On the cost side, Viriato can help determine the essential cost drivers: annual train kilometres and required rolling stock rotations.
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Service intention: a helpful metric for planning and dispatching decisions
The implementation of transport services on very dense networks must integrate a number of technical and operational parameters.
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A dynamic simulation environment for interactive traffic control
A simulation setup will help demonstrate how proactive adjustment of the operating plan concerning train sequence and route choice can brake the propagation of train delays.
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SBB’s implementation of interactive traffic control
SBB’s Rail Control System (RCS) implements state-of-the-art technology as the basis for dispatching.
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Optimised investments in railway networks: coordination of infrastructure and timetable planning is indispensible
Switzerland’s Rail 2000 project is known as the first one in the world in which all the technical components of the railway were considered together as a system
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