Digital automatic coupling of freight wagons: impacts on rail yards and operation
| Componente | Categoria |
|---|---|
| Luca Rizzetto | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca |
| Cristiana Piccioni | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca |
| Nadia Kaviani | Dottorando/Assegnista/Specializzando componente non strutturato del gruppo di ricerca |
The wagons interchanges in the marshalling yards needs presently a high manual effort in absence of automatic coupling systems. Automatic couplers are the most critical components, not only to make shunting and marshalling safer and cheaper, but also because this will make it easier to operate longer trains.The work in Task 4.1 will start from the results of these studies, corroborated by the careful analysis of the state-of-the-art depicted below. The specific objectives will be the identification and the quantification of operational and economic impacts at local level (marshalling yards and other stations where the composition of trains will change) and network level (lines and corridors) taking into account constraints imposed by slot assignments processes. The obtainable modal split changes and the corresponding energetic and environmental achievable benefits in the various migration scenarios will be estimated.