scholarly journals HIGH SPEED RAILWAY LINES – FUTURE PART OF CZECH RAILWAY NETWORK?

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Lukáš Týfa ◽  
David Vodák

The paper first describes high speed rail generally and explains the relationship between high speed and conventional railway networks (according to the vehicle types in operation on the network). The core of the paper is comprised of the methodology for choosing the best route for a railway line and its application to the high speed railway connection Praha – Brno. The Algorithm used assumes the existence of more route proposals, which could be different in terms of the operational conception, line routing or types of vehicles used. The optimal variant is the one with the lowest daily cost, which includes infrastructure and vehicle costs; investment and operational costs. The results from applying this model confirmed the assumption, that a dedicated high speed railway line, only for high speed trains, has the same or lower investment costs than a line for both high speed and conventional trains. Furthermore, a dedicated high line also has a lower cost for infrastructure maintenance but a higher cost for buying high speed multiple units.

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 2141
Author(s):  
Xueqiao Yu ◽  
Maoxiang Lang ◽  
Wenhui Zhang ◽  
Shiqi Li ◽  
Mingyue Zhang ◽  
...  

The rapid and stable development of China’s economy has driven the increasing demand for express transportation. Based on network operation, China Railway Corporation of High-speed Railway launched high-speed rail products, which have attracted wide attention from all walks of life. With the application of high-speed express trains, the market structure of express transportation in China will change dramatically, from highways as the main mode of transportation to high-speed railway transportation relying on a high-speed railway network, which will effectively reduce the environmental pollution caused by express transportation and further improve the sustainable development of the economy and the logistics industry. At present, the freight Electric Multiple Units (EMU) has been successfully developed and has entered the final test stage. In the last paper, we have introduced the theory and method of the high-speed rail express train operation plan. In addition, a train diagram is an important foundation of railway transportation organization. In order to ensure the sustainable development of high-speed rail express trains after they are put into use, based on the operation plan of high-speed rail express trains, this paper establishes a comprehensive compilation model of a high-speed rail express train diagram, considering train running time, freight flow distribution scheme, and the operation plan of freight multiple units, and an exact solution algorithm based on the Lagrange relaxation algorithm is designed. The computational results are encouraging and demonstrate the effectiveness of the model and solution method.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Nedžad Branković ◽  
Aida Kalem

The development of new technologies has significantly influenced railways modernization and has caused the appearance of high-speed rail which represent a safe, comfortable and ecologically sustainable way of transportation. The high-speed rail present a big step in a relation to conventional railways, where the biggest difference is speed which even entails a change of other organizational and operational parameters, better utilization of trains, higher performance of manpower and better service to users.  That is visible in many cities around the world where high-speed trains are used by billions of users. In the EU there is no unique high-speed railway network, besides that in many EU member countries various operational models are applied. The future of the high-speed railways market depends on political, economical and technical factors and challenges as high infrastructure costs, various rates of return on investment and the negative effects of economic crises. The main objective of the paper is to analyze infrastucture costs of high-speed rail in Europe and benefits such us  time savings, higher reliability, comfort, safety, reducing pollution and the release of capacity in the conventional rail network, roads and airport infrastructure.


2020 ◽  
pp. 107754632093689
Author(s):  
Hongye Gou ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
Hui Hua ◽  
Yi Bao ◽  
Qianhui Pu

Deformations of high-speed railways accumulate over time and affect the geometry of the track, thus affecting the running safety of trains. This article proposes a new method to map the relationship between dynamic responses of high-speed trains and additional bridge deformations. A train–track–bridge coupled model is established to determine relationship between the dynamic responses (e.g. accelerations and wheel–rail forces) of the high-speed trains and the track deformations caused by bridge pier settlement, girder end rotation, and girder camber. The dynamic responses are correlated with the track deformation. The mapping relationship between bridge deformations and running safety of trains is determined. To satisfy the requirements of safety and riding comfort, the suggested upper thresholds of pier settlement, girder end rotation, and girder camber are 22.6 mm, 0.92‰ rad, and 17.2 mm, respectively. This study provides a method that is convenient for engineers in evaluation and maintenance of high-speed railway bridges.


2014 ◽  
Vol 505-506 ◽  
pp. 471-476
Author(s):  
Qing Jie Zheng ◽  
Bao Ming Han ◽  
Hua Li

Based on the relationship between passenger flow and demand of electric multiple units (EMU), a new methodology to calculate the EMU demand and allocate the EMU is proposed, which can meet the demand of passenger as well as avoid the waste of transport capacity. An offline allocation plan of EMU is designed by analyzing the fluctuation in passenger flow, passenger average haul distance, passenger load factor and so on. Using the methodology, the EMU allocation problem is solved through program, which is used in Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway to obtain the EMU allocation plan.


Author(s):  
Bowen Gao ◽  
Decun Dong ◽  
Yusen Wu ◽  
Dongxiu Ou

The rescheduling of train timetables under a complete blockage is a challenging process, which is more difficult when timetables contain lots of trains. In this paper, a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model is formulated to solve the problem, following the rescheduling strategy that blocked trains wait inside the stations during the disruption. When the exact end time of the disruption is known, trains at stations downstream of the blocked station can depart early. The model aims at minimizing the total delay time and the total number of delayed trains under the constraints of station capacities, activity time, overtaking rules, and rescheduling strategies. Because there are too many variables and constraints of the MILP model to be solved, a three-stage algorithm is designed to speed up the solution. Experiments are carried out on the Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway line from Chibibei to Guangzhounan. The original timetable contains 162 trains, including 29 cross-line trains and 133 local trains. The simulation results show that our model can handle the optimization task of the timetable rescheduling problem very well. Compared with the one-stage algorithm, the three-stage algorithm is proved to greatly improve the solving speed of the model. All instances can get a better optimized disposition timetable within 450 to 600 s, which is acceptable for practical use.


2018 ◽  
Vol 180 ◽  
pp. 01009
Author(s):  
Andrzej Żurkowski

The paper includes briefly the most important methodological considerations for selecting the maximum speed for the newly designed HSL. They provide a context for discussion on energy aspects regarding traction energy costs. The research problem in question includes both the assessment of the absolute values associated with the consumption of traction energy and their reference to other costs and revenues associated with the operation of the High Speed Rail (HSR). The proposed approach is based on an analysis of the experience described in the international literature of the subject and simulation calculations for Polish conditions. Based on the approximate results and dependences in this field obtained by the railways with operational experience in relation to the typical HSR train sets, the records of dependencies which are most likely to be confirmed in Polish conditions are presented. Currently, 3 kV DC is used on the railway network in Poland. This is therefore technically different from the one designed on HSL (25 kV AC), which the calculations are related to. Choosing the maximum speed for HSL must take into account the consumption of electricity because of its significant cost. However, the shortening of travel time by increasing the speed makes the HSR offer more attractive and thus allows for increased revenues. The final decision should therefore be a compromise based on detailed calculations, forecasts and simulations.


2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (04) ◽  
pp. 1350006 ◽  
Author(s):  
BUM HWAN PARK ◽  
YONG-IL SEO ◽  
SUNG-PIL HONG ◽  
HAG-LAE RHO

This study investigated railway line planning optimization models that determine the frequency of trains on each line to satisfy passenger origin–destination demands while minimizing related costs. Most line planning models assume that all trains on the same route run with the same halting pattern. However, to minimize passenger travel time and to provide a train service with faster travel times to as many stations as possible, we must consider various halting patterns; these patterns can be provided in advance or are required to be formulated. Our study addresses two line planning problems that consider halting patterns, describes the computational complexities of each problem, and presents the column generation approach for one model. We also present experimental results obtained for the Korean high-speed railway network.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Zhuo Wang ◽  
Haowen Yan ◽  
Yuhan Huang ◽  
Yazhen Li

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The robustness of the high-speed rail transportation network is closely related to the passenger transportation efficiency, and is also a concrete manifestation of the anti-jamming capability of the high-speed railway transportation system. By the end of 2017, the business mileage of Chinese high-speed railway has reached 25,164 km, the number of passengers has reached 175.216 million, accounting for 56.8% of railway passenger traffic; the number of passenger turnover has reached 587.56 billion person-km, accounting for 43.7% of railway passenger traffic turnover.As of 2018 On December 4th, the country operate 4,251 high-speed railway trains every day. At the same time, passenger transportation efficiency of high-speed railways is highly susceptible to sudden events such as natural disasters. Therefore, quantitative assessment of anti-jamming capability of high-speed railway network, and the propose of specific improvements, are of great practical significance to improve passenger transport efficiency, enhance scientific decision-making high-speed rail transport infrastructure investments.</p><p>This paper used the the high-speed train running data on December 4, 2018 to analyze the work.Its high-speed railway network schematic is shown in Figure 1.</p><p>The Scale-free property of networks means that the node degree of networks obeys power-law distribution. It is generally believed that scale-free networks exhibit robustness against random faults and vulnerability to deliberate attacks. In this paper, the regularity of node degree change is expressed by distribution function P(k). As shown in the degree distribution of double logarithmic coordinate system as shown in Figure 2, the network has a great goodness of fit and better obeys power law score.That is to say, the network is a scale-free network.</p><p>In this paper, random attacks and deliberate attack simulations are used to observe the condition of the structure of China's high-speed railway network, and in order to measure the robustness of high-speed rail network. Among them, the formula refers to random delete a node from the network; deliberate attack is to delete nodes according to their importance. Attack strategies for node degree and intermediate centrality are used to determine which nodes are selected for each simulated attack (the lower the importance, the smaller the impact on the network). According to the three attack strategies for the high-speed railway transportation network, experiments are carried out to carry out continuous simulation attacks on the network: in each time, a node in the network and all its connected edges are deleted, the relative average shortest path and average clustering coefficient of the network at this time are counted. And the degree of fragmentation, looping until all nodes in the network are deleted, that is to say, the network is completely invalid. In Fig. 3, Fig. 4 and Fig. 5, the X axis represents the number of attack nodes, and the Y axis represents the current network structure feature metric.</p><p>It can be seen that the intentional attack based on the centrality of node mediation has the most serious damage to the network, that is, in other word, the state of splitting and crashing of the network.. For deliberate attacks, China's high-speed railway transport network is very fragile, and attacking nodes with high intermediary centrality value is the most destructive to China's high-speed railway transport network. Therefore,in order to ensure the normal operation of passenger transport we need to focus on ensuring the stability of the sites with the highest intermediary value. This paper ranks the sites according to the value of intermediary centrality. Figure 6 shows the top 10 sites in China's high-speed rail transport network with centrality as intermediaries.</p>


Author(s):  
Dian Wang ◽  
Shuguang Zhan ◽  
Qiyuan Peng ◽  
Wentao Zhou

Overnight high-speed trains are very popular and convenient for passengers in countries with a large territory like China. However, the overnight high-speed train operation inevitably conflicts with the regular evening maintenance. We focus on both overnight high-speed train scheduling and maintenance planning to eliminate the conflict. Because some of the daytime high-speed trains that run early in the morning or late in the evening also interact with overnight high-speed trains and maintenance, we also allow them to be to slightly rescheduled to improve both the quality of the overnight train timetable and the maintenance plan. Our integrated optimization problem is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming model, which can be solved efficiently by the commercial solver CPLEX. Finally, we validate our model on a large real-world case constructed based on the Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway line in China.


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