Optimal train control at a junction in the main line rail network using a new object-oriented signalling system model

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

Volumn 88, Issue , 2006, Pages 479-488

  Takagi, R ^a   Weston, P F ^b   Goodman, C J ^b   Bouch, C ^b   Armstrong, J ^c   Preston, J ^c   Sone, S ^a  

^a KOGAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic Algorithm; Junction; Multi train simulator; Object oriented; Optimisation; Railway signalling; Train pathing

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

OBJECT-ORIENTED MULTI-TRAIN SIMULATOR (OOMTS); OBJECT-ORIENTED SIGNALLING; OPTIMAL TRAIN CONTROL;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTROL SYSTEM; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; RAILWAY; SIGNALING; TRAIN;

EID: 36249014303     PISSN: 17433509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2495/CR060481     Document Type: Conference Paper

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