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Modeling of Traffic Smoothness for Railway Track Closures in the Rail Network

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Rail Transport—Systems Approach

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This article presents a discussion of railway track section closures and loss of traffic. A method for rational planning and optimal coordination of track closures is introduced, along with estimations of traffic smoothness, including a few example calculations.

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    Grzegorz Karoń

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Karoń, G. (2017). Modeling of Traffic Smoothness for Railway Track Closures in the Rail Network. In: Sładkowski, A. (eds) Rail Transport—Systems Approach. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 87. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51502-1_8

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