Integrated Dispatching in Railway Operations

预计未来几年铁路运输的增长将对铁路基础设施和运营构成重大挑战。特别是，在重载铁路节点或子网中，调度决策的质量和由此产生的延迟传播本质上取决于调度员的经验和动机。通过与应用合作伙伴VIA Consulting & Development GmbH在竞争前领域的知识转移项目，将开发和验证调度原型。这个决策支持系统的原型计算解决方案建议，并证明了调度决策的质量。在铁路部门解决冲突的情况下，新方法不能直接用于运营。因此，额外要求的验证步骤在亚琛工业大学铁路信号实验室进行。与实际操作相比，冲突场景是可再现的，这允许评估不同的解决方案策略。到目前为止，计算时间方面的结果非常令人满意，但也必须满足实际需求，因为随着时间的推移，调度决策的时间越来越有限。事实上，不仅要实时地解决冲突，而且还必须可靠地识别潜在的冲突。知识转移项目基于DFG项目“Optimierungsverfahren bei Disposition und Fahrplanerstellung im Eisenbahnwesen”，该项目由rer博士成功完成。弗莱姆·魏曼。列车行程自动调度项目取得的成果将在铁路信号实验室与应用伙伴在现实条件下进行测试，并向实用化方向发展。

The forecast growth in rail transport over the next few years is a major challenge for railway infrastructure and operation. In particular, in heavily loaded railway nodes or subnetworks, the quality of scheduling decisions and the resulting delay propagation is essentially dependent on the experience and motivation of the dispatcher. A dispatching-prototype will be developed and validated by the transfer of knowledge project with the application partner VIA Consulting & Development GmbH in a pre-competitive area. This prototype of a decision support system calculates solution proposals with a proven quality for dispatching decisions.In the case of conflict resolution in the railway sector, novel methods cannot be taken directly into operations. Therefore, the additionally required validation step is carried out at the RWTH Aachen Railway Signalling Lab. In contrast to real operation, conflict scenarios are reproducible, which allows to evaluate different solution strategies. The results so far are very promising with respect to the computation time, but must also meet real requirements, since the time for dispatching decisions is limited more and more as time passes. In fact, not only the conflict resolution has to be done in real time, but potential conflicts must also be recognized reliably.The transfer of knowledge project is based on the DFG project " Optimierungsverfahren bei Disposition und Fahrplanerstellung im Eisenbahnwesen", which was successfully finished by Dr. rer. nat. Frédéric Weymann. The results obtained in the course of the project for automatic scheduling of train travels are to be tested at the Railway Signalling Lab with the application partner under realistic conditions and advanced in the direction of practicality.