| Title | Development of Capacity Model for Continuous Single-Track Sections and Update of Rail Capacity Software (1/2) |
| Dept | Transportation Planning and Land Transport Division |
| Year | 2015 |
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| Summary | In order to accommodate the needs of developing rail transportation, the Institute of Transportation carried out a series of research projects. These projects have been developing models and software to analyze rail capacity for conventional railway systems. However, the past capacity model for continuous rail sections can not be applied to single-track railway, and the users of capacity software require increasingly more functions. Thus, the Institute of Transportation launched the two-year project “Development of Capacity Model for Continuous Single-Track Sections and Update of Rail Capacity Software”.
In the first year of this project, the purpose of this research is to develop a rail capacity model for continuous single-track sections. This simulation model is based on discrete event-orientation simulation, and uses Dynamic Route Reservation method to avoid deadlocks. The factors considered in the model are traffic composition, overtaking/meeting, station layout, and signal close-in time etc. In the case study, we designed a series of test cases to confirm that the behavior of this model is consistent with practical experience. Furthermore, we applied the model to evaluate the capacity of Taitung Line to find out the bottleneck. This study also analyzes the effects of the capacity improvement with several strategies, including rebuilding double-track sections, constructing new tracks in stations, and additional dwell stations. |
| Post date | 2015/10/29 |
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