COLOURED PETRI NETS TO MODEL GEOGRAPHICAL INTERLOCKING FOR RAILWAY

S. Ingram, M. A. Hossain, S. Cox

2005

Abstract

Petri nets have been widely applied in different aspects of railway modelling and analysis. This paper presents an insight into how coloured Petri nets can be used to model geographical interlocking. We start with a generalisation of coloured Petri nets and follow with an overview of interlocking. In the main body we present a generic unit model and demonstrate how it can be used to represent a simple junction, comprising of three fundamental components; namely track, signal and point units.

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in Harvard Style

Ingram S., A. Hossain M. and Cox S. (2005). COLOURED PETRI NETS TO MODEL GEOGRAPHICAL INTERLOCKING FOR RAILWAY . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO, ISBN 972-8865-30-9, pages 175-180. DOI: 10.5220/0001176501750180


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco05,
author={S. Ingram and M. A. Hossain and S. Cox},
title={COLOURED PETRI NETS TO MODEL GEOGRAPHICAL INTERLOCKING FOR RAILWAY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO,},
year={2005},
pages={175-180},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001176501750180},
isbn={972-8865-30-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 4: ICINCO,
TI - COLOURED PETRI NETS TO MODEL GEOGRAPHICAL INTERLOCKING FOR RAILWAY
SN - 972-8865-30-9
AU - Ingram S.
AU - A. Hossain M.
AU - Cox S.
PY - 2005
SP - 175
EP - 180
DO - 10.5220/0001176501750180