Capacity utilisation and performance at railway stations

Capacity utilisation and performance at railway stations

As traffic levels increase on railways in Britain and elsewhere, improved understanding of the trade-offs between capacity provision/utilisation and service quality is increasingly important, as Infrastructure Managers and Railway Undertakings seek to maximise capacity provision without an unacceptable loss of service reliability and punctuality. This is particularly true of the stations and ju...

Sanitation and Other Allied Matters at Big Indian Railway Stations

2. Periodic flushing.?Do this by fire-hose pipes connected to the hydrants by a hydrantconnector. Dry the surface thoroughly with squeezers on the platforms and swabs in the waiting rooms, etc. 3. Collection of paper rubbish, fruit peels and skins.?-Do this in small waste-bins fixed at regular intervals' along the platform pillars. Banana skins lying on the platforms result nearly daily into pa...

Delay Propagation and Process Management at Railway Stations

Process operators at large railway stations have the difficult task to secure a fluent train traffic flow while minimizing deviations from established timetables. Variation in actual train departure times is inevitable due to many circumstances such as arrival delays and fluctuations in alighting and boarding time, even if some buffer time is contained in the dwell time. Moreover, a departure m...

Modelling Interlocking Systems for Railway Stations

Improving Customer Proximity to Railway Stations

We consider problems of (new) station placement along (existing) railway tracks, so as to increase the number of users. We prove that, in spite of the NP-hardness for the general version, some interesting cases can be solved exactly by a suitable dynamic programming approach. For variants in which we also take into account existing connections between cities and railway tracks (streets, buses, ...