Scientific paper ID 1146 : 2015/3

OpenTrack was developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Institute for Transportation Planning and Systems (ETH IVT). The project’s goal was development of a user-friendly railroad simulation program that can run on different computer platforms and can answer many different questions about railway operations. OpenTrack is a microscopic synchronous railroad simulation model. As such it simulates the behaviour of all railway elements (infrastructure network, rolling stock, and timetable) as well as all the processes between them. It can be easily used for many different types of projects including testing the stability of a new timetable, evaluating the benefits of different long-term infrastructure improvement programs, and analysing the impacts of different rolling stock.