Energy Simulation of Tramway Systems, Simplified and Efficient Models

Abstract

There is a wide interest in the simulation of the energy consumptions of tramway and more generally railway systems. This simplified model developed starting from specifications of Florence Tramway in Florence has been optimized in order to be a near to optimal trade-off in terms of accuracy and required computational resources whose usage has been optimized in order to exploit a possible implementation on multi-thread, distributed systems. In this preliminary work it's presented a benchmark case study with two train performing their mission in opposite direction on the same line considering also feeders and different kind of reversible and irreversible substation. Implemented model has proved to be relatively adaptable for different kind of studies, easy customizable with a modular architecture and potentially very efficient in terms of involved computational loads.