Integrated Dispatching in Railway Operations

未来几年铁路运输的预测增长对铁路基础设施和运营是一个重大挑战。特别是，在重载铁路节点或子网，调度决策的质量和由此产生的延迟传播基本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出具有经过验证的质量的调度决策的解决方案。在铁路部门的冲突解决方案中，新方法不能直接应用于运营。因此，在RWTH亚琛铁路信号实验室进行额外要求的验证步骤。与真实的操作相反，冲突场景是可再现的，这允许评估不同的解决方案策略。到目前为止的结果是非常有前途的计算时间方面，但也必须满足真实的要求，因为调度决策的时间是有限的，随着时间的推移。事实上，不仅冲突解决必须在真实的时间内完成，而且潜在的冲突也必须被可靠地识别出来。知识转移项目是基于DFG项目“Optimierungsverfahren bei Disposition und Fahrplanerstellung im Eisenbahnwesen”，该项目由Rer博士成功完成。弗雷德里克·韦曼。在列车运行自动调度项目过程中获得的结果将在铁路信号实验室与应用合作伙伴在现实条件下进行测试，并朝着实用的方向发展。

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.