Circle rail transit line timetable scheduling using Rail TPM

This paper on circle rail transit line timetable scheduling is from the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer System Design and Operation in Railways and Other Transit Systems, held in Beijing, China, in 2010. The authors describe the use of Rail TPM, a user-friendly rail transit timetable scheduling tool, that can be easily scheduled for simple-path, share-path or circle-path trains. They discuss the definition of circle line topology structure, time-space structure, calculation and application of rolling stocks, rolling stocks assignment, train storage management, and transfer schemes. The paper concludes with a case study of Line 4 in Shanghai (China) to illustrate the practical value of the Rail TPM program.