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2017

SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers

Rail

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Upgrading Rail Connectivity Between Illawarra And Sydney, Joseph J. Branigan, Fariba Ramezani Khansari Jan 2017

Upgrading Rail Connectivity Between Illawarra And Sydney, Joseph J. Branigan, Fariba Ramezani Khansari

SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers

The Illawarra Business Chamber (Illawarra First) commissioned the SMART Infrastructure Facility UOW (SMART) to investigate options to improve the speed and reliability of passenger and freight rail transport services between the Illawarra and Sydney.


Railnet: A Simulation Model For Operational Planning Of Rail Freight, Guillaume Michal, Nam N. Huynh, Nagesh Shukla, Albert Munoz, Johan Barthelemy Jan 2017

Railnet: A Simulation Model For Operational Planning Of Rail Freight, Guillaume Michal, Nam N. Huynh, Nagesh Shukla, Albert Munoz, Johan Barthelemy

SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers

In many rail networks, infrastructure constraints force the shared usage of lines between passenger and freight movements. Scheduling additional freight movements around existing passenger services and peak traffic based curfews presents significant challenges to commodity industries eager to increase export volumes. This paper addresses the problem of inserting additional freight movements in a constrained railway network. To this end, a railway operations planning model was developed to simulate and insert feasible rail movements in a non-periodic timetable. The simulation modelling platform developed in this paper is called RailNet, which simulates the existing railway network constraints and is capable of adding …