TRB Annual Meeting 2024

A poster presentation of a paper documenting the initial development of the Spur project is taking place at the 103rd Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., USA. The title of the paper and presentation is: Developing a Modular, Data-Driven Mesoscopic Simulator for Stochastic Railway Networks.

This poster is presented as part of the following session:

  • Event Number: 2114

  • Event Title: Exploring Operations Optimization: Train Scheduling and Staffing Forecasting

  • Event Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Hall A

  • Event Time: Monday, January 8, 2024, 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM

  • Poster Board Location Number: B669

Poster

A digital file of the full poster is available for download as a PDF here.

References

References for the works on other mesoscopic railway simulation models featured in the poster are below:

    1. Saidi, N. H. M. Wilson, H. N. Koutsopoulos, and J. Zhao, “Mesoscopic Modeling of Train Operations: Application to the MBTA Red Line,” in 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Oct. 2019, pp. 98–103. doi: 10.1109/ITSC.2019.8917313.

    1. Marinov and J. Viegas, “A mesoscopic simulation modelling methodology for analyzing and evaluating freight train operations in a rail network,” Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 516–539, Jan. 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.simpat.2010.08.009.

    1. Zhong, Y. Yue, and D. Li, “Analyzing and Evaluating Infrastructure Capacity of Railway Passenger Station by Mesoscopic Simulation Method,” in 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT), Singapore, Dec. 2018, pp. 1–5. doi: 10.1109/ICIRT.2018.8641593.

    1. Quaglietta, L. D’Acierno, V. Punzo, R. Nardone, and N. Mazzocca, “A simulation framework for supporting design and real-time decisional phases in railway systems,” in 2011 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Washington, DC, USA, Oct. 2011, pp. 846–851. doi: 10.1109/ITSC.2011.6082913.

    1. Diviš and A. Kavička, “Design and development of a mesoscopic simulator specialized in investigating capacities of railway nodes,” presented at the 27th European Modeling and Simulation Symposium, Sep. 2015, pp. 52–57. Link to paper.

    1. de Fabris, G. Longo, G. Medeossi, and R. Pesenti, “Automatic generation of railway timetables based on a mesoscopic infrastructure model,” Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, vol. 4, no. 1–2, pp. 2–13, Aug. 2014, doi: 10.1016/j.jrtpm.2014.04.001.

    1. Kavička and P. Krýže, “Dynamic Automated Search of Shunting Routes within Mesoscopic Rail-Traffic Simulators,” Journal of Advanced Transportation, vol. 2021, pp. 1–22, Apr. 2021, doi: 10.1155/2021/8840516.