The accumulation cost of relaxed fixed time accumulation mode

Abstract

Abstract Studying the wagon accumulation process and the laws of accumulation cost is of great significance for determining the suitable conditions of wagon accumulation and shortening the accumulation time. Here, the process of relaxed fixed time accumulation is first taken as a stochastic service system, and derives the theoretical formula for the accumulation cost. Then based on actual data of wagon flows, a simulation model is built to analyse the influence of parameters in the theoretical formula such as the coordination of the traffic diagram and the accumulation process, the sizes and intervals of the arriving wagon groups and the minimum number of wagons. Finally, through comparing with the accumulation cost of fixed train length accumulation mode and considering the benefit of changing the minimum number of wagons in train sets, the optimal minimum number of wagons in the relaxed fixed time accumulation mode under different wagon flow intensities is determined.