EVALUATION OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS OF WAGON PROCESSING AT SHUNTING STATIONS USING THE SIMULATION MODEL

Abstract

Shunting stations play an essential role in ensuring the proper functioning of the railway transport system. The proper organisation of their work allows trains to be dispatched on time and compensates for delays in other areas of the railway network. This paper presents a method for evaluating the technological process of wagon processing at shunting stations based on the author's formulation of evaluation measures and using a simulation model developed in Flexsim. A variant computational example was developed to verify it and demonstrate its capabilities. The method has many applications in assisting decision-makers in organising shunting station operations, adapting the shunting station layout to the tasks or identifying bottlenecks.

Keywords

• railway transport
• shunting station
• wagon processing
• simulation research