A simulation model of the process of organizing the movement and maintenance of trains at a Railway Station

Abstract

The article presents the results of research of a simulation model of the process of organizing the movement and maintenance of trains at the Railway Station. The model is built as part of a discrete-event approach using the theory of queuing systems and is implemented using the GPSS Studio simulation tool. The simulation model makes it possible to evaluate the efficiency of a Railway Station (workload of personnel, time and delays in servicing trains and performing operations at different stages) to make optimal decisions on organizing the movement of trains and shunting operations taking into account the current situation. Experimental studies of the model were performed on different input data, an analysis of the adequacy of the model was carried out by comparing the experimental results of the workload of the station personnel and the time of operations with the real data of a Railway Station in one of the cities of Russia.