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Article: Program boosts capacity: trains, a tool developed by CFlex, Brazil, for decision-making support, is designed to cut the time spent by trains passing one another in loops on single-track lines and in terminals and thereby increase capacity and productivity.(Train Control)
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- International Railway Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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TRAINS is a new program launched last year that helps in the planned operation of freight trains by analysing information, different options and conditions, to offer the train dispatcher or controller the best solution. As a result, it can reduce the time a train has to stop at terminals and in passing loops.
Trains is in operation on two Brazilian railways: Latin American Logistics (ALL) and Northeastern Railway (CFN), and is being installed on ALL's Northern Brazil and Argentine railways. At ALL, within just two months of installation, there was a reduction of 17% in the amount of time trains were stopped, representing a gain of about 10% in the operating ...