SNCF Voyageurs/TGV-Intercités operates over 800 highspeed trains (TGVs) per day in France. The system can be highly tense during peaks with up to 13 trains per hour on the same track section. Thus, minor delays can affect operations, especially for long-distance trains. Supervision of the system and real-time rescheduling are difficult tasks given the complexity of the rail network and the cohabitation of different train services. In this work, we present a real-time decision-support tool providing estimations on the arrival time of trains at each station and at destination and helping comparisons between rescheduling choices. The estimations of future delays have a focus on explainability, with information on the causes of the delay and on the possibility to recover the delay. The operators can use the tool to test different rescheduling choices and see the impact of each scenario on the traffic, helping them deciding the actions to take to minimize delays. The predictions of arrival times of trains are based on a macroscopic discrete event simulator, coupling the theoretical timetabling with real-time information on the trains’ positions. Arrival times are displayed on the interface of the developed web application, where the user can interact with the simulation by adding information and comparing different disruption management scenarios. The tool has been tested with success in an operational environment. The operators gave positive feedback on the tool, underlying its capacity to give them more insight on the expected delay evaluations and on potential conflicts. The information displayed was judged relevant and reliable. This is confirmed by our analysis of the quality of the simulation.

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A Real Time Decision-Support Tool for Traffic Management

  • Charles-Frédérick Amaudruz,
  • Valentina Pozzoli

摘要

SNCF Voyageurs/TGV-Intercités operates over 800 highspeed trains (TGVs) per day in France. The system can be highly tense during peaks with up to 13 trains per hour on the same track section. Thus, minor delays can affect operations, especially for long-distance trains. Supervision of the system and real-time rescheduling are difficult tasks given the complexity of the rail network and the cohabitation of different train services. In this work, we present a real-time decision-support tool providing estimations on the arrival time of trains at each station and at destination and helping comparisons between rescheduling choices. The estimations of future delays have a focus on explainability, with information on the causes of the delay and on the possibility to recover the delay. The operators can use the tool to test different rescheduling choices and see the impact of each scenario on the traffic, helping them deciding the actions to take to minimize delays. The predictions of arrival times of trains are based on a macroscopic discrete event simulator, coupling the theoretical timetabling with real-time information on the trains’ positions. Arrival times are displayed on the interface of the developed web application, where the user can interact with the simulation by adding information and comparing different disruption management scenarios. The tool has been tested with success in an operational environment. The operators gave positive feedback on the tool, underlying its capacity to give them more insight on the expected delay evaluations and on potential conflicts. The information displayed was judged relevant and reliable. This is confirmed by our analysis of the quality of the simulation.