Author(s)

Giovanni Cosulich, Alexander Fay, Tommaso Ghiara & Sven Reusche

Abstract

In the last years, many countries have tried to better the structure of their national railways: improving services and performance, cutting operating costs and separating the ownership of the various activity areas. One way to improve the service quality is to develop new automatic tools for planning and designing railway infrastructures and for controlling traffic operation. Many companies are developing new software tools for different computer architectures, which have to take into account different tasks such as simulating or controlling traffic on tracks or in stations, recognising and solving abnormal operating conditions, supporting the control staff in their decis

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