Receiving Routing Problem at Railway Station for Virtual Coupling Operations

The concept of virtual coupling train set (VCTS) is one of the latest research directions, and will fundamentally change station organization. Based on the given notion and operation features of VCTS, the requirements for its reception and departure are analyzed in combination with the station operation characteristics. The receiving route allocation model for VCTS is proposed and solved by an improved genetic algorithm with elitist and adaptive strategy. Finally, a simulation is carried out for the designed example based on a practice station. The result shows that the proposed model and algorithm can obtain an effective station receiving route allocation scheme under the requirements of safe operation and improve the efficiency of train reception and departure greatly in theory.