Spur: Simulation for Planning and Understanding Railways
Spur is an event-based mesoscopic railway network simulation platform designed to support real-time operations and medium-to-long-term planning by capturing the stochastic movement of individual trains and the interactions between trains on the network while maintaining a paramatertized view of rail movements and dynamics. The model balances simplification with flexibility, and requires substantially less data and expertise than traditional microscopic simulation models.
Spur is currently under initial development. This means that while features are available and can in principle be used for simulation purposes, the design of the simulation and codebase are likely to change rapidly without much thought for backwards compatability or overall impacts.
The documentation here is designed both as a user manual and as a technical documentation source for developers wishing to adapt or extend the software or build their own plugins.
If you are interested in contributing to the project, please consult our contribution guide.