Rail Planner

Rail Planner: Open Source Railway Planning Softwares

Open source railway planning software for designing and evaluating train schedules and infrastructure, analyzing capacity, punctuality issues, and infrastructure requirements.

What is Rail Planner?

Rail Planner is an open source railway planning software application used for designing, visualizing, and evaluating train schedules, railway infrastructure, and operations. It provides modeling and simulation capabilities to analyze railway capacity, identify bottlenecks, test operational changes, improve punctuality, and evaluate infrastructure requirements.

Key features of Rail Planner include:

• Graphical interface to design rail networks, model train routes, build schedules, and specify railroad assets like tracks, signals, and stations
• Simulation engine to run trains on the infrastructure and generate results like train movements, platforming, capacity usage, and delay statistics
• Reporting to evaluate capacity, infrastructure usage, ride quality, and operational changes
• Modeling of complex rail features like single track, passing sidings, multiple blocks, and interlockings
• Import of OpenStreetMap, shapefiles, and other data to create real-world rail models faster

Rail Planner helps railway planners optimize infrastructure utilization, enhance operational efficiency, improve reliability, and evaluate capital project alternatives. Its open source nature provides transparency and flexibility compared to proprietary tools.

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