Print Email Facebook Twitter Hourly Traffic Density Based Decomposition in Non-Centralised Railway Traffic Management Title Hourly Traffic Density Based Decomposition in Non-Centralised Railway Traffic Management Author Hornung, Gitte (TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) Contributor Reppa, V. (mentor) Quaglietta, E. (mentor) Middelkoop, D (mentor) Goverde, R.M.P. (graduation committee) Atasoy, B. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Mechanical Engineering | Multi-Machine Engineering Date 2023-02-21 Abstract The Dutch railway network is a dense network with 7000 kilometers of railway tracks spread over only 42 000 square kilometers [1, 2]. Additionally, the railways are responsible for 1.4 million passengers every working day [1]. These factors make both the infrastructure and timetable of the Dutch railway network extremely intricate. On top of that, the amount of train trips is expected to grow with 40 % by 2040 [3] and with that the complexity of managing the railway network will increase even more. In the case of conflict in the timetable, action must be taken to resolve this conflict in order for the train operations to continue. In current Dutch practice this task resides with the train dispatchers. However it can be difficult for the dispatcher to oversee the situation when multiple trains get involved and taken actions will have consequences on yet another selection of trains. This increasingly complex task has resulted in a grown interest in so-called Traffic Management Systems (TMS), which are an intelligent systems that use a conflict resolution algorithm to find a solution to a conflict. A TMS can be used to support the train dispatcher... To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f9b31c5a-2977-4df9-8c50-0a4c40631257 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2023 Gitte Hornung Files PDF GitteHornung_MasterThesis.pdf 8.13 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f9b31c5a-2977-4df9-8c50-0a4c40631257/datastream/OBJ/view