LIBROS-II: Railway modeling with DEVS

The increasing complexity of railway systems and the high costs incurred by design and operational errors make modeling and simulation a popular methodology in the domain of railway transportation. To successfully support detailed design and operation, a microscopic rail network model is often deemed not only suitable but also mandatory. However, the simulation of large-scale microscopic models is computationally intensive, making it unsuitable for real-time applications. In this paper, a railway simulation library, LIBROS-II, is introduced which offers high performance rail simulation at the microscopic level. The library is specified with the DEVS formalism. Its major components and their specifications are presented. Its performance is assessed through a simple example and contrasted with a typical model using a continuous modeling abstraction of train movement. The result shows that with comparable model detail and accuracy the LIBROS-II model yields a higher performance than the model using differential equations.