Perfect fulfilment of the various railway operations is crucial for the quality of the rail transportation process, as the tight interlinkage of this process causes that failure in only one operation may generate serious disturbances in multiple fronts, such as:
- Delays
- Railway network conflicts
- Extra operational costs
- Generation of unexpected waiting times
- Capacity occupation
- etc.
In order to examine and understand how railway operations are planned, executed and controlled requires serious research and understanding how the procedures for movement and conveyance of railway vehicles (engines, trains, wagons, shuttles etc.) are interacted with the conditions of the track layout and the signalling system.
Specificity of railway operations are intimately connected with the type of Movements of Railway vehicles, which are divided into two main groups. These are:
- Train movements
- Shunting movements
Both groups of movements are characterized with different rules in different countries. The first symptom of this is given by the definition for train movements. For instance, according to German rules Train movements are all movements on main tracks outside the home signal limits. According to British rules Train movements (also called “running movements”) are all movements on main tracks outside the station limits.
How are characterized those movements in US?
- Delays
- Railway network conflicts
- Extra operational costs
- Generation of unexpected waiting times
- Capacity occupation
- etc.
In order to examine and understand how railway operations are planned, executed and controlled requires serious research and understanding how the procedures for movement and conveyance of railway vehicles (engines, trains, wagons, shuttles etc.) are interacted with the conditions of the track layout and the signalling system.
Specificity of railway operations are intimately connected with the type of Movements of Railway vehicles, which are divided into two main groups. These are:
- Train movements
- Shunting movements
Both groups of movements are characterized with different rules in different countries. The first symptom of this is given by the definition for train movements. For instance, according to German rules Train movements are all movements on main tracks outside the home signal limits. According to British rules Train movements (also called “running movements”) are all movements on main tracks outside the station limits.
How are characterized those movements in US?