WIT Press

Improving The Dutch Railway Services By Network-wide Timetable Simulation

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

37

Pages

10

Published

1998

Size

967 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/CR980291

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

Jurjen S. Hooghiemstra, Dick M. Middelkoop & Maurice J.G. Teunisse

Abstract

The DONS system, Designer Of Network Schedules, supports the development of timetables by generating regular interval timetables for the Dutch railway network; it is used to plan improved or new train services and to locate bottlenecks in the railway infrastructure. A new simulation module enables the planners to study the network- wide dynamic properties of DONS timetables. The direct link between DONS and this simulation module, enhanced by the re-use of previously defined DONS concepts and the automatic generation of simulation models from existing data, facilitates an integrated approach towards inf

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