E-Book: Railway Timetabling and Capacity

The timetable is an essential element of rail traffic control. By inserting train paths into a time-table, the infrastructure capacity is assigned to the train moves. To establish a conflict-free timetable, models are needed to evaluate the capacity consumption both of individual train paths and of traffic patterns with a mix of different train types. In this E-book, after a short introduction to some basic terms on railway operations, the modelling of train paths is explained. Based on this, the following chapters cover the capacity evaluation of the infrastructure and the methods to establish feasible timetables. This E-books was originally written as a tutorial for students at TU Braunschweig to support lectures on railway planning and operations.

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