DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION OF RAILWAY SYSTEMS WITH HYBRID MODELS
G. Decknatel, Eckehard Schnieder · Annual Conference on Computers · 2000
This paper describes a multi-train simulator where the emphasis lies on integrating the continuous and discrete aspects of railway systems. The language used for building the simulator is based on high-level Petri nets. In addition to the usual features of Petri nets, the paper introduces continuous transitions that are able to manipulate real-valued attributes of tokens. It outlines two methods for simulating the hybrid models with a standard Petri net tool, one of which uses discrete events. Some examples of models and simulation results are given.