Object oriented simulation of longitudinal trair dynamics efficient tools to optimize sustainability and efficiency of railway systems

As a partner of the Tesys Rail Project, the University of Florence has developed an innovative model of the longitudinal railway vehicle dynamics that can be easily adapted to different kind of applications and mission scenarios, ranging from tramways or freight to passenger or even high speed train. The aim of the model is the efficiency and energy optimization of railway systems. A particular attention has been paid to the modularity of the proposed approach and to the possibility of real time implementation on different application targets. The proposed modeling approach reaches a good compromise between the capability of the model to reproduce the behavior of the simulated physical systems and the simplification needed to make the model more general and suitable to represent different technological solutions. In this work, the proposed modeling approach is exposed and, in order to highlight its main features, some benchmark tests are shown.