Author(s)

MARTIN SCHEIDT, MAX KANNENBERG

Abstract

Open science requires open-source tools that produce verifiable results. Nevertheless, a universal opensource tool in railway engineering is still missing. This paper presents an open-source tool for running time estimation to promote a change toward more open tools. Besides the tool’s implementation, the need for simple data formats and data sources is discussed. The tool was tested against a commercial tool and revealed variations in the computation. Nonetheless, the tool can already deliver valuable results for simple investigations.

Keywords

driving dynamics, run time, railway, railroad, open science, driving mode, railml, railtoolkit, julia programming language