Abstract
With the increasing use of railway transportation, various methods have been developed for the control and management of train traffic. Train traffic control systems that are currently in use are overwhelmingly centralized systems. In this study, the development of the general structure of railway traffic control techniques is examined, centralized and decentralized control systems are investigated, and an alternative train traffic control system, the Decentralized Train Traffic Management System (DTMS), is suggested. Simulation results on the possible application of the proposed method to a railway line in South-East Turkey are employed to evaluate the performance of the developed system.
Highlights
Management and control of railway traffic has been an appealing field of research in recent years
Decentralized train traffic control may be promising as the future of Automatic Train Control (ATC)
This study proposes a Decentralized Traffic Management System (DTMS), which has been designed, coded and simulated for a number of real cases
Summary
Management and control of railway traffic has been an appealing field of research in recent years. Reliable and fast train traffic control systems are needed to cope with the increasing traffic density and high speed trains of today. In the last few decades, the common approach to train traffic control has been the use of Automatic Train Control (ATC) systems along with radio communication. The majority of Railway Traffic Management (RTM) systems currently in use today are centralized systems where train traffic is monitored and controlled by a supervisor. In Turkey, train traffic operations are managed by the use of traffic signals. Using simulations of a real railway line in Turkey, results illustrate the performance of the proposed system in usual and unusual scenarios
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