How to simulate train arrivals and track occupation at a station?

Hi!

I would like to show the occupation level of a railway station, given a timetable. As input, I have frequency of arrivals, dwell times, reserve times, turning times etc. As an output I would like to take a matrix M for each track, which will have two columns, one for time step, e.g. seconds, and the other the binary status of the track, e.g. 0 for free and 1 for occupied:

M=[1 0; 
2 0;
3 0;
4 1;
5 1;
6 1;
7 1;
...
63 1;
64 0;
65 0
...];

Is there any (easy) way / function I can simulate these arrivals over time for 2-3 hours in a row, preferably without the need of a toolbox?

Thanks,

Iro

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

This sounds like a really good application for SimEvents. SimEvents allows you to model all of these discrete events and to keep track of various statistics like occupation, number in the station etc.