Some parts of the European high speed line network are near saturation. ETCS-L2, the so called Level 2 of the European train control system, standard for providing signalling and automatic train protection (ATP) on new high speed lines (HSL), offers a pretty good level of capacity. However, even with the mobile block system provided by ETCS-Level 3, it seems quite impossible for the practical c...

Railway capacity is not only the basic condition for the allocation of railway resources but also an index set for the evaluation of the usage of them. Sometimes the maximum theoretical results calculated according to the coefficient methodology for the capacity calculation of the Existed Chinese traditional railway (abbreviated as ECTR) would be less than those statistical results from the rea...