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Keywords: simulation, railway, deadlocks, single-track, circulation, capacity, Arena.

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This paper provides information about a work to simulate a Brazilian rail corridor called Paraopeba. The simulation model was developed using a generic program (Arena). Through the use of this program, a 100km-long railway characterized by a mainly single-track circulation of trains moving in both directions with iron ore loading terminals was recreated. This corridor has some other particular issues that make it a complex environment. Some of the terminals use secondary tracks to load trains, which lowers the corridor's capacity and affects other terminals. Also, the majority of the loading points do not have inner waiting tracks. Therefore, queues are created along the corridor's circulation lines, which decrease capacity further. As a result of the model application, an assessment of actual capacity and ranking of bottleneck solutions were obtained. The benefits of using such an approach is to develop a flexible modeling adjusted to a peculiar railway that is capable of making trains circulate without deadlocks and making reproduction possible using other simulation tools; giving to decision makers more options beyond specialized railway simulation software.

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Front Page Browse CCP CSETS CTR IJRT Other Authors Search Purchase Guide FAQ Contact us	Civil-Comp Proceedings ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 104 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE Edited by: J. Pombo Paper 295 A Model to Simulate the Traffic of Trains on the Paraopeba Corridor T.A. Dos Santos^1,2 ¹MRS Logística S.A., Transport Engineering Sector, Juiz de Fora, Brazil ²Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil doi:10.4203/ccp.104.295 purchase the full-text of this paper Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper T.A. Dos Santos, "A Model to Simulate the Traffic of Trains on the Paraopeba Corridor", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 295, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.104.295 Keywords: simulation, railway, deadlocks, single-track, circulation, capacity, Arena. Summary This paper provides information about a work to simulate a Brazilian rail corridor called Paraopeba. The simulation model was developed using a generic program (Arena). Through the use of this program, a 100km-long railway characterized by a mainly single-track circulation of trains moving in both directions with iron ore loading terminals was recreated. This corridor has some other particular issues that make it a complex environment. Some of the terminals use secondary tracks to load trains, which lowers the corridor's capacity and affects other terminals. Also, the majority of the loading points do not have inner waiting tracks. Therefore, queues are created along the corridor's circulation lines, which decrease capacity further. As a result of the model application, an assessment of actual capacity and ranking of bottleneck solutions were obtained. The benefits of using such an approach is to develop a flexible modeling adjusted to a peculiar railway that is capable of making trains circulate without deadlocks and making reproduction possible using other simulation tools; giving to decision makers more options beyond specialized railway simulation software. purchase the full-text of this paper (price £20) go to the previous paper go to the next paper return to the table of contents return to the book description purchase this book (price £65 +P&P)
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