Fully Automatic Dispatch of Coupling and Uncoupling Based on Interoperable Flexible Formation

Urban rail transit has the characteristics of tides and different spatial passenger flow distributions. Many technologies are raised and researched recently. Based on its operational demand characteristics, fully automatic online coupling and uncoupling can solve some of the contradictions between transportation capacity and energy consumption, headway and service quality. Based on the inter-operable protocol and flexible formation, the dynamic identification of coupling trains is designed based on the precise location messages from ZC. Meanwhile, with the definition of coupling and uncoupling service trips in the timetable, the detail about the fully automatic dispatch process of coupling and uncoupling is carried out in this paper. At the same time, relevant operational suggestions are provided for some abnormal scenarios.