Paper for RailDresden 2025

A paper on Traxim written for the 2025 International Association of Rail Operations Research conference (RailDresden 2025) and presented as a poster at the conference. It provides background to the development of Traxim, and further explanation of the technical characteristics of the software.

Worked Example

A description of the inputs and outputs, and associated use case, for a fantasy network based on the western region of the former Milwaukee Road railroad in the United States. The scenario described reflects the sample input and output files available for download below.

The Milwaukee Road fantasy network as a zipped set of kml files to open in Google Earth Pro. These provide track centreline and nominal kilometrage as per the input track geometry files.

Example Use Cases

Examples of how Traxim can be used to bring statistical robustness to rail system analysis. More example use cases will be added over time, so keep checking back.

Example Files

Output Files

The following files are sample outputs for the scenario described in the Milwaukee Road Example Use Case.

Input Files

The following individual csv files are templates for the inputs to Traxim. They are populated with data for the Milwaukee Road fantasy example network described in the Milwaukee Road Example Use Case. Or download the full set as a zip file.

You can validate and resolve the scenario yourself to experience Traxim. Follow the instructions in the Get Started page.

Geometry

Tractive Effort