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The Effect Of Infrastructure Changes On Railway Operations., Martin J.R. Schmidt 1966-
The Effect Of Infrastructure Changes On Railway Operations., Martin J.R. Schmidt 1966-
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This paper makes use of standard simulation programs in combination with the tools of applied statistics to simulate railway operations. The purpose of the use of this tool is to evaluate and compare different possible kinds of railway infrastructure, like different types of signaling procedures, different network configuration or operational procedures. A railway system is a logistic network and because of the demand for improved railway operation, much work has been undertaken lately in this scientific field. However the author postulates the hypothesis based on a literature review that in a lot of these works there is a lack of …