Railway line capacity consumption of different railway signalling systems under scheduled and disturbed conditions》.pdf

Journal of Rail Transport Planning Management 3 (2013) 78–94 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Rail Transport Planning Management journal homepage: /locate/jrtpm Railway line capacity consumption of different railway signalling systems under scheduled and disturbed conditions q Rob M.P. Goverde a,⇑, Francesco Corman b,c, Andrea D’Ariano d a Department of Transport and Planning, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands b Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 300A, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium c Department of Maritime and Transport Technology, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands d Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della vasca navale, 79-00146 Roma, Italy a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This paper proposes the new concept of dynamic infrastructure occupation to assess infrastructure capac- Received 27 May 2013 ity under disturbed conditions as a complement to the established capacity indicator of scheduled infra- Revised 28 November 2013 structure occupation. This new indicator is applied in a capacity assessment study of a Dutch railway Accepted 2 December 2013 corridor with different signalling configurations under both scheduled and disturbed traffic conditions. Available online 28 December 2013 For scheduled conditions the standard UIC compression method for computing infrastructure occupation