Reasonable Number of Passenger Trains Operated on Single-Track Railway

In single track railway sections, there is a close relationship between the traveling density of passenger trains and their traveling speeds. In this paper, an in depth analysis is made of the crossing, overtaking behaviors, and traveling speeds of passenger trains on single track railways, and a general rule reflecting the relationship between the traveling speed and the traveling density is found out. Through a computer simulation, the reasonable scope for the number of passenger trains to be operated on Xiangfan Huaihua line is obtained. This work can afford a theoretical reference for determining the reasonable number of passenger trains on other single track railways.