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A State of the Art on Railway Simulation Modelling Software Packages and Their Application to Designing Baggage Transfer Services

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Sustainable Rail Transport

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There is a new baggage transfer service suggested in Newcastle Central Station. In order to prove that this service is feasible, a simulation model can be developed to test the concept and operating pattern behind. For the purposes of this paper, we intend to organize a literature review on simulation modelling software packages employed to study service design. Specifically, this paper has compared five different simulation software packages used by the railway industry to study service-related challenges. As a result, it is suggested that SIMUL8, a macroscopic discrete event-based software package, should be used among the five compared ones because of its simplicity and the ability to give practical results for the design and performance of such a baggage transfer system.

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  1. School of Engineering, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Ho Ki Yeung

  2. NewRail, Newcastle University, Claremond Road, Stephenson Building, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Marin Marinov

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  2. NewRail, Rail Education Group, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Marin Marinov

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Yeung, H.K., Marinov, M. (2019). A State of the Art on Railway Simulation Modelling Software Packages and Their Application to Designing Baggage Transfer Services. In: Fraszczyk, A., Marinov, M. (eds) Sustainable Rail Transport. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78544-8_7

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