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Manual Analysis

  • Comparison scheduled timetable - effective timetable (graphical and textual).
  • Mean value of train runnings, standard deviation at a station (for arrival-delays and departure-delays).
  • Distribution of delays at stations.
  • Delays per hour of day, weekday, week and month.
  • Analysis of dwell time excess at stations.
  • Cover which shows the space needed for the train runnings. You can also see the space needed by the earliest n% of the train runnings and the space of those runnings having a delay longer than a defined limit.
  • Analysis of effectively used time-slots.
  • Dataexport in ASCII- and RailML-Format.
  • Dataimport in RailML-Format (scheduled for mid 2003).
Figure 1 Figure 2

Figure 1: The red lines represent the scheduled timetable...

Figure 2: ... the train runnings (orange) often are very different to the scheduled times...

Figure 3 Figure 4

Figure 3: ... of these single train runnings you can calculate a mean value (blue) and compare it to the scheduled timetable...

Figure 4: ... with this you can also see the standard deviation of the delays. The larger the green areas the more is the scattering of the delays...

Figure 5 Figure 6

Figure 5: ... in this picture the green areas show the space needed by the earliest 95% of the train runnings. Delays which are longer than 5 minutes are drawn in a dark green color...

Figure 6: ... this picture shows the cover in detail: The whole area indicates the space needed by all train runnings, the green area shows the earliest 95% of the runnings. The dark green area indicates the space of the 95% which have a delay longer than 5 minutes...

Figure 7 Figure 8

Figure 7: Distribution of the departure-delays in Landquart, Sargans and Ziegelbruecke. The red area indicate the 75 % of the earliest trains, the blue area (including the red area) indicates the 95 % value.

Figure 8: Sum of departure-delays per hour. Red means 75 % of the earliest trains (calculated from the distributions as shown in the picture at the left side). The blue area is the 95 % value. The red marked mean-value means a mean delay longer than a given limit.

Figure 9

Figure 9: Capacity Distribution. The green area indicates the needed slots for 75% of the realized offer.

You can download the pictures also as PDF-files:

To use PDF-documents you need Acrobat Reader of Adobe which can be downloaded for free.

Automatic Analysis

This module examines the available data and gives feedback if there are any violations of user-defined constraints, e.g. show all stations having a mean delay longer than a defined limit.

This module should be available by end of 2003. Description and pictures forthcoming.

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Status: 30.08.2004

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