Rail Traffic Requirements Engineering

Abstract

The deregulation of the Swedish rail transport market and introduction of several operators competing for train paths has fundamentally affected the demands on the capacity allocation process. As a consequence this process is facing radical change in the near future. The demands and their consequences for the future are analysed in this paper. The analysis proceeds from a set of identified requirements typically posed by rail transport customers and service operators. A simple mathematical framework in which these requirements can be formalised is defined and methods for conflict detection and resolution are discussed.