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The Research of Capability Simulation Module on Modern Railway Logistics Center

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Theory, Methodology, Tools and Applications for Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems (AsiaSim 2016, SCS AutumnSim 2016)

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Logistics industry has grown rapidly in China. The amount of logistics industry has doubled in last 6 years. Along with the logistic reengineering process of railway corporations, railway logistics centers play an important role in railway freight network. Simulation is an effective method on study of logistics capability. In this paper, operation processes of logistic center were analyzed. A simulation model of railway logistics center was built with the theory of discrete event dynamics systems and Petri-net. Train route scheduling simulation was created to improve the accuracy of simulation. A simulation tool named SIMRLC was developed using C# based on this module. The effectiveness of this module has been verified by case study of the Qianchang railway logistics center in Xiamen.

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  1. School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    Xuchao Chen & Shiwei He

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    Xiao Song

  3. Beihang University, Beijing, China

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Chen, X., He, S. (2016). The Research of Capability Simulation Module on Modern Railway Logistics Center. In: Zhang, L., Song, X., Wu, Y. (eds) Theory, Methodology, Tools and Applications for Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems. AsiaSim SCS AutumnSim 2016 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 643. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2663-8_57

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