RT Conference Proceedings
T1 An Approach to Overtaking Station Layout Diagram Design Using Graphs
A1 Roanes-Lozano, Eugenio
A1 Galán-García, José Luis
A1 Aguilera-Venegas, Gabriel
K1 Ferrocarriles - Tecnología
K1 Aplicaciones informáticas
AB The authors have approached in the past different railway engineering problems (e.g. [1,2]) and have developed software for the Spanish Railway Foundation [3], mainly using computer algebra systems (CAS). Now a CAS is used for designing and implementing a software package that allows to compare different layout diagrams for overtaking stations [4], from the point of view of its flexibility (for instance in degraded working conditions). The most common cases of overtaking stations (stations on double track lines with one or two sidings each side of the main line and one or two crossovers at the two throats of the overtaking station) are considered as illustration. It will be shown how, surprisingly, the usual position of thecrossovers is not optimum from this point of view. The key idea is to use graph theory to determine the number of pairs of non conflicting itineraries (one in each direction) that can be simultaneously authorized by the railway interlocking system. The package can be applied to an overtaking station with any layout diagram. This is an important issue: for instance, the Spanish infrastructure administrator (Adif) is now planning a new track layout for Madrid Chamartín station [5] and the Iberian gauge part of Madrid Atocha station.
YR 2020
FD 2020-07-24
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/19679
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/19679
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 23 ene 2026