Scalable simulation models of railway traffic

Abstract

This contribution deals with the methodology of building scalable simulation models reflecting railway traffic. Those models apply different level of abstraction (granularity) to diverse parts of a simulating system. The areas of a railway system that are supposed to be studied in detail are typically modelled on a microscopic level. The sections of infrastructure, which require just rough traffic evaluations, are investigated on a macroscopic level. The resulting methodology contains a variety of functionalities supporting the construction of variant configurations related to a scalable simulator of railway traffic for the needs of different simulation scenarios.