RAILSIM Editor is
the single source for infrastructure and operations modeling for
RAILSIM applications. RAILSIM Editor lets you:
- Build an
infrastructure (track alignment) and signal system model (aspects,
code rates, control lines) with both geographically correct (GIS)
and schematic representations, and
- Define its
operations (train compositions, routing, dispatching priorities,
schedules, dependencies and passenger behavior), and
- Define operational
exceptions (randomization, failures and other operational events)
for simulation.
RAILSIM Editor is the
complete solution for infrastructure, control system, and operations
modeling.
Here, train class-dependent speeds are being defined for the model,
which is displayed in its schematic representation.
The RAILSIM Editor Model
(Database)
A user-friendly tool for developing the most complex rail system models
in a graphic environment, RAILSIM Editor supports the development of
both schematic (model board) and geographically-correct rail system
representations.
Its underlying database
is a Microsoft Access relational database, saved with a GDB
(Graphic Database) file name extension, with over 100 data
type-specific tables.
The RAILSIM Editor
model can be built interactively or from imported:
- Data from
AutoCAD Drawing Exchange Format (DXF) files
- Earlier-version
RAILSIM models, and
- RAILSIM TPC
models.
Infrastructure Modeling
Capabilities
RAILSIM Editor can
model any rail network, from a straightforward, one or two-track,
single-line system to the most complex multi-line, multi-modal
network.
- CAD *.DXF file
import and export features permit drawing maintenance in CAD (with
layer and entity types preservation),
- Editor also supports
new model creation through infrastructure data imports from
previous-version RAILSIM models, or from RAILSIM TPC7 models,
- RAILSIM Editor's
Schematic Generator lets you interactively create a schematic
representation of your model.
RAILSIM Editor's Schematic
Generator "walks" you through the process of creating a schematic
representation of your geographically correct model, route by route.
Train Control System Modeling
Capabilities
RAILSIM Editor
accurately models virtually any train control system, including:
- User-defined signal
aspects/operating rules,
- Wayside/no cab,
wayside/cab, cab/no wayside and Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC)
technologies
- Track warrant/manual
block systems
- Mixture of cab
signal equipped and non-equipped vehicles operating on the same
system.
RAILSIM Editor's Node
Property Editor uses property pages to let you define infrastructure
and functional characteristics of the model, one specific node (or
point).
Operations Modeling
Capabilities
- Multiple operating
plans per model,
- Day-to-day
variations in operating plans,
- Interactive train
route specification with schematic or geographic view in a
dynamic display of the model as you define the route through each
interlocking,
- Definition of
schedule patterns, and subsequent association with individual trains
or train classes
- Replication of
specific train trips at specified intervals,
- Train consists
assembled from RAILSIM Rolling Stock Libraries,
- Specification of 22
types of failures/operating events:
- Interlocking
Failure
- Train Traction
Motor Failure
- Block Power
Failure
- System Speed
Restriction
- System Reduced
Brake Rate
- Increased Dwell
- Unscheduled Train
Stop
- Unscheduled Train
Stop by Location
- Train Equipment
Change
- Train Merge
- Train Maximum
Adhesion Reduction
- Train Penalty
Brake Application
- Train Speed
Restriction/Overspeed
- Extra
Origin-Destination Passengers
- Extra Train/Forced
Conditional Put-in
- Train Split
- Headway Control
On/Off
- Rusty Switch
- Switch Blocked
- Selective Track
Out of Service
- Temporary Track
Speed Restriction
- Track Out of
Service
You can fine tune operating plans at the highest level of detail using
RAILSIM Editor's Operations Editors. Use the Train Operations Editor
shown here to assemble your definitions of train consists (equipment),
routes, and schedules into defined Train Trips, which are then
available when you begin assembling full Operating Plans.
Passenger Modeling
Capabilities
RAILSIM's powerful
passenger modeling capabilities are used to match service with demand,
to evaluate trip times, passenger waiting times, and train dwell
times. Passenger (ridership) modeling in RAILSIM supports:
- Passenger
origin-destination specifications, appropriate for frequent service,
such as light rail and rapid transit,
- Passenger
Distribution in percent,
- Passenger Train
Boarding and Departure Rates, appropriate for schedule service
systems, such as commuter rail,
- User-definable
Platform Crowding and Train Crowding algorithms to adjust passenger
movement (flow) rates based on occupation volumes.
Passenger flow reports detail the impacts of operating changes on rail
system ridership.
The User Experience
RAILSIM Editor is a
single document, multiple views
interface (SDMVI) application, meaning that in the single, open model, you have
several open "windows" at a time, each showing a different aspect of
the rail network being modeled. Organized for maximum ease of use,
RAILSIM Editor has a logical menu tree structure, and several command
toolbars, which permit ready access to the more common commands. In
addition, several commands can be accessed via function keys or “hot”
keys.
You can save separate
sets of custom views for both geographic and schematic model
representations.
You can also assign
different color schemes by type of model representation (geographic,
schematic, and track profile).
Typical
RAILSIM Editor Output
RAILSIM Editor supports
user-configurable track chart generation for all selected database routes, through
its Track Profile Chart
Editor, which also provides access to the RAILSIM7
Signal Design,
Safe Braking
Distance and
Headway Calculation Add-Ons.
Full-model Export to a combination of
Drawing Exchange Format (DXF) and Extensible Markup Language (XML)
files is also supported. The resulting DXF file contains the rail
network infrastructure, organized by the appropriate RAILSIM-convention
layers. The XML file contains all operations information and other
non-geographic information.
Exporting
an entire rail network model is useful for those cases where model
changes are most expediently implemented in CAD software. For example,
when you want to test potential significant track configuration
modifications, you could export your model of the existing system, and
modify the infrastructure in a CAD application. Once the
modifications are complete, the drawing can be DXF’d out of CAD, and
imported back into RAILSIM Editor as a new model. The XML file can
then be imported into the new model and the operations data modified
as needed.
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