Railroad capacity tools and methodologies in the U.S. and Europe

FRA (2009) Vision for high-speed rail in America. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Washington, DC

Cambridge Systematics I (2007) National rail freight infrastructure capacity and investment study. Association of American Railroads (AAR), Cambridge

Lai Y-C, Barkan C (2009) Enhanced parametric railway capacity evaluation tool. J Transp Res Board 2117:33–40. doi: 10.3141/2117-05 (National Academies, Washington, DC)

Tolliver D (2010) Railroad planning & design, CE 456/656 Lecture Notes. North Dakota State University

AREMA (2006) Manual for railway engineering. Volume 4-systems management. American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association, Lanham

Fox J, Hirsch P, Kanike O, Simpson DP, Cebula AJ, Bing AJ, Horowitz ESB (2014) Capacity modeling guidebook for shared-use passenger and freight rail operations, NCHRP Report 773. NCHRP, Washington, DC

UIC (2004) UIC CODE 406 R-capacity, 1st edn. International Union of Railways (UIC), Paris

IMPROVERAIL (2003) IMPROVEd tools for RAILway capacity and access management-deliverable 6 methods for capacity and resource management. Competitive and Sustainable Growth (GROWTH) Programme—European Commission, Brussels-Belgium

Sameni MK, Dingler M, Preston JM, Barkan CPL (2011) Profit-generating capacity for a freight railroad. In: TRB 90th Annual Meeting, TRB, Washington, DC

Alex Landex EA (2006) Evaluation of railway capacity. In: Annual Transport Conference, Aalborg University, Denmark

White T (2012) Comparison of U.S. and European railroads, Lecture notes for CE-4490. Michigan Tech. University-CEE Department, Houghton

Railway-Technical (2008) Railway statistics for Britain. http://www.railway-technical.com/statistics.shtml . Accessed May 2012

ERRAC (2004) A comparison of member state public research programmes with the ERRAC SRRA 2020. European Rail Research Advisory Council (ERRAC), Brussels

DB-AG (2011) Station categories 2012. DB-AG, Berlin-Germany (in German)

Amtrak (2011) Annual report fiscal year 2011. Amtrak, Washington, DC

Teixeira P (2009) Railway engineering principles, Technical University of Lisbon, CTIS Master’s course in MIT-Portugal Program, Lisbon

FRA (2008) Highway-rail grade crossing safety fact sheet. FRA Public Affairs, Washington, DC

DOT (2011) National transportation statistics. U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC

NetworkRail (2010) Curtail crazy driving at level crossings or risk more lives, says rail chief. http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/Press-Releases/CURTAIL-CRAZY-DRIVING-AT-LEVEL-CROSSINGS-OR-RISK-MORE-LIVES-SAYS-RAIL-CHIEF-13c1/SearchCategoryID-2.aspx .Accessed on 2012

Verkehrswissenschaftliches (2008) Influence of ETCS on the line capacity. International Union of Railways (UIC), Paris

White T (2005) Alternatives for railroad traffic simulation analysis. J Transp Res Board 1916:34–41 (TRB-Washington, DC)

Systra (2007) Technical classification and main technologies for the HSR systems. Complementary studies of Tehran-Qom-Isfahan HSR, Paris

Amtrak (2012) Monthly performance report for December 2011. AMTRAK, Washington, DC

Wearden G (2007) UK train times back on track. The Guardian, Friday 23 November 2007

Marco Luethi AN, Weidmann U (2007) Increasing railway capacity and reliability through integrated real-time rescheduling. Swiss Federal Railways, SBB AG, Zurich

CER (2004) Rail freight quality: meeting the challenge, A Report on the first year of the CER-UIC-CIT Freight Quality Charter. Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER), Bruxelle, Belgium

Pouryousef H, Lautala P (2013) Evaluating the results and features of two capacity simulation tools on the SHARED-use corridors. In: ASME/ASCE/IEEE 2013 Joint Rail Conference (JRC2013), Knoxville, TN, USA

Pouryousef H, Lautala P (2014) Evaluating two capacity simulation tools on shared-use U.S. rail corridor. In: 2014 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, TRB, Washington, DC

Lai Y-C, Barkan C (2011) A comprehensive decision support framework for strategic railway capacity planning. J Transp Eng 137:738–749. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000248 (ASCE 137 (October 2011))

Abril M, Barber F, Ingolotti L, Salido MA, Tormos P, Lova A (2007) An assessment of railway capacity. Technical University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Pachl J (2002) Railway operation and control. VTD rail publishing, Mountlake Terrace

Pavankumar Murali MMD, Ordonez F, Palmer K (2009) A delay estimation technique for single and double-track railroads. Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Sogin SL, Barkan CPL (2012) Railroad capacity analysis. In: Railroad engineering education symposium (REES) by AREMA, Kansas City

Schultze GI (2012) SLS PLUS (Software Manual). Schultze + Gast Ingenieure, Berlin

Robert Prinz JH (2005) Implementation of UIC 406 capacity calculation method at Austrian Railway (OBB). Austrian Railway (OBB), Vienna

Banverket (2005) Application of the UIC capacity leaflet at Banverket. Banverket, Swedish National Rail Administration

Melody Khadem Sameni MD, Preston JM (2010) Revising the UIC 406 method: revenue generating capacity- JRC2010-36281. In: Joint Rail Conference (JRC) 2010, Urbana, IL, USA, 2010

Noble JS, Charles N (2007) Missouri freight and passenger rail capacity analysis. Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), Jefferson City

RTC (2011) RTC online help (Manual). Berkeley Simulation Software, CA, USA

RMCon (2012) RailSys 8 classic, Railsys 8 Enterprise, network-wide timetable and infrastructure management. Rail management consultants GmbH (RMCon), Hannover

RMCon (2010) RailSys user manual. Rail management consultants GmbH (RMCon), Hannover

Huerlimann D, Nash AB (2012) Manual of opentrack-simulation of railway networks, Version 1.6. OpenTrack Railway Technology Ltd. and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Huerlimann D (2012) OpenTrack—simulation of railway networks. OpenTrack Railway Technology Ltd., Zurich

Frank O (1966) Two-way traffic in a single line of railway. Oper Res 14:801–811

Petersen ER (1974) Over the road transit time for a single track railway. Transp Sci 8:65–74

Higgins A, Kozan E (1998) Modeling train delays in urban networks. Transp Sci 32(4):251–356

de Kort AF, Heidergott B, Ayhan H (2003) A probabilistic approach for determining railway infrastructure capacity. Eur J Oper Res 148:644–661

Ghoseiri K, Szidarovszky F, Asgharpour MJ (2004) A multi-objective train scheduling model and solution. Transp Res Part B 38:927–952

Burdett RL, Kozan E (2006) Techniques for absolute capacity determination in railways. Transp Res Part B 40:616–632

Wendler E (2007) The scheduled waiting time on railway lines. Transp Res Part B 41:148–158

Lindner T (2011) Applicability of the analytical UIC Code 406 compression method for evaluating line and station capacity. J Rail Transp Plan Manag 1:49–57

Corman F, D’Ariano A, Hansen IA, Pacciarelli D (2011) Optimal multi-class rescheduling of railway traffic. J Rail Transp Plan Manag 1:14–24

Hansen IA, Pachl J (2008) Railway timetable & traffic, analysis, modeling, simulation, 1st edn. Eurailpress, Hamburg

Petersen ER, Taylor AJ (1982) A structured model for rail line simulation and optimization. Transp Sci 16:192–206

Kaas AH (1991) Strategic capacity analysis of networks: developing and practical use of capacity model for railway networks. ScanRail consult, Technical University of Denmark

Dessouky MM, Leachman RC (1995) A simulation modeling methodology for analyzing large complex rail networks. Simulation 65(2):131–142

Sogin SL, Barken CPL, Lai Y-C, Saat MR (2012) Impact of passenger trains in double track networks. In: 2012 Joint rail conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Transit Safety Management Inc.; HDR Engineering (2006) Amtrak cascades operating and infrastructure plan—technical report. Vol 1. Washington State Department of Transportation-Freight Systems Division

Medeossi G, Longo G, Fabris Sd (2011) A method for using stochastic blocking times to improve timetable planning. J Rail Transp Plan Manag 1:1–13

Brod D, Metcalf AE (2014) Web-based screening tool for shared-use rail corridors (NCFRP REPORT 27). National cooperative freight research program-Transportation research board (TRB), Washington, DC

Sogin SL, Barkan CPL, Lai Y-C, Saat MR (2012) Measuring the impact of additional rail traffic using highway & railroad metrics. In: 2012 Joint rail conference (JRC), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dingler M, Lai Y-C, Barkan CPL (2009) Impact of operational practices on rail line capacity: a simulation analysis. In: 2009 Annual AREMA conference, Chicago, IL

Siggel S (2006) Analysis of capacity and optimization of infrastructure of the line minot (North Dakota)—Havre (Montana). Braunschweig Technical University, Braunschweig-Germany

Atanassov I, Dick CT, Barkan CPL (2014) Siding spacing and the incremental capacity of the transition from single to double track. In: 2014 Joint rail conference (JRC), Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Shih M-C, Dick CT, Sogin SL, Barkan CPL (2014) Comparison of capacity expansion strategies for single-track railway lines with sparse sidings. In: TRB 2014 Annual meeting, Washington, DC, USA

Schlechte T, Borndörfer R, Erol B, Graffagnino T, Swarat E (2011) Micro–macro transformation of railway networks. J Rail Transp Plan Manag 1:38–48

Gille A, Siefer T (2013) Sophisticated capacity determination using simulation. In: Transportation research board 2013 Annual meeting, Washington, DC, USA

Medeossi G, Longo G (2013) An approach for calibrating and validating the simulation of complex rail networks. In: TRB 2013 Annual meeting, Washington, DC, USA

Sipila H (2014) Evaluation of single track timetables using simulation. In: 2014 Joint rail conference (JRC), Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Goverde RMP, Corman F, D’Ariano (2014) A investigation on the capacity consumption at Dutch railways for various signalling technologies and traffic conditions. In: TRB 2014 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA