Classification yards play a significant role in railroad freight transportation and are often considered bottlenecks for railroad networks. Based on a generic yard simulation model, the model in the presented study fits the Bureau of Public Roads function, which is widely used in highway capacity to represent the volume–dwell time relationship. The proposed analytical model incorporates major features of rail yards, such as the number and capacity of tracks in each area, the number of engines and humps, the humping speed, and the assemble rate. The model is validated by historical data from 16 classification yards of Class I railroads in the United States. The results show that the proposed model can generate precise capacity data of rail yard, as well as the dwell time of rail cars in yards. The dwell time increases sharply when the volume is greater than the capacity of a rail yard. The identified relationship may help a railroad analyze its network at the macro level and therefore improve the systemwide capacity and efficiency.


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    Title :

    Macrolevel Classification Yard Capacity Modeling


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Contributors:
    Zhang, Licheng (author) / Jin, Mingzhou (author) / Ye, Zhirui (author) / Li, Haodong (author) / Clarke, David B. (author) / Wang, Yanyan (author)


    Publication date :

    2017-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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