Automatic shunting operation method and device

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an automatic shunting operation method and device, wherein the method comprises: generating a list of trains to be picked up according to the running line information; decomposing the trains in the list of trains to be picked up according to the train formation information to form the decomposed train information; forming a shunting plan for picking up trains based on the train information, shunting type, car dumper and track before turning; and generating a vehicle formation plan based on the shunting plan for picking up trains, thereby effectively improving the working efficiency of railway ports and stations.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of railway port station shunting, and in particular to an automatic shunting operation method and device. Background Art

[0002] The daily management workload of existing railway ports and stations is relatively large, especially for some large ports and stations. For example, Huanghua Port Station, as a large coal unloading station, connects to the coal port and mainly handles the reception and dispatching, unloading, loading, empty and loaded car delivery, and marshaling and dismantling of freight trains. Huanghua Port Station has a large annual coal unloading volume, train reception and dispatching frequency, and station car inventory.

[0003] In order to achieve the management of ports and stations, relevant ports and stations set up multiple nodes for control. For example, the main positions for daily transportation organization operations at Huanghua Port Station include duty stationmasters, multiple station dispatchers, port front (including loading and unloading stations and storage stations set up after entering the port yard during railway freight) and port operation area duty officers, joint control assistant duty officers, shunting masters, connectors, signalmen, car number officers, etc. Due to the large throughput of freight trains at Huanghua Port Station, the workload of each position and team is huge. Among them, station dispatchers edit hundreds of shunting plans on average every day, duty officers monitor more than a hundred train reception and dispatch operations every day, and joint control assistant duty officers have to monitor dozens of train technical operations at the same time.

[0004] The management of existing railway ports and stations has the following problems:

[0005] 1. The shunting plan is compiled manually, with many steps and heavy workload;

[0006] 2. Station dispatchers cannot prepare shunting plans in advance and can only prepare plans after the train arrives at the station. The tight time schedule easily affects subsequent operations;

[0007] 3. The positions of the existing vehicles in the station are calculated in real time according to the shunting plan. The accuracy of pushing the shunting plan and reporting the points is required to be high. The duty officers in the station monitor multiple shunting plans at the same time, which will inevitably lead to operational errors and make it impossible to continue the shunting operation. Summary of the invention

[0008] To solve at least one of the above problems, the present disclosure provides an automatic shunting operation method and device.

[0009] The present disclosure provides an automatic shunting operation method, the method comprising:

[0010] Generate a list of vehicles to be picked up based on the operation line information;

[0011] Decomposing the trains in the train number list to be picked up according to the train marshaling information to form decomposed train number information;

[0012] Forming a train pick-up and shunting plan based on the train information, shunting type, dumper and track before shunting;

[0013] A vehicle marshaling plan is generated based on the vehicle picking and shunting plan.

[0014] In some embodiments, before decomposing the trains in the train number list to be picked up according to the train formation information, it is determined whether the train needs to be split into small trains.

[0015] In some embodiments, after forming a vehicle pick-up and shunting plan,

[0016] According to the received pre-port and port CTC reporting information, perform automatic airport pick-up reporting and automatically update the current vehicle information; and / or,

[0017] According to the received port-front and port CTC reporting information, the hook plan from port-front to the pre-turn track is automatically reported and the track current vehicle is updated.

[0018] In some embodiments, trains that have not been aligned during the car picking operation are screened and alignment operation train information is generated; and the car tipping machine information and post-tip track information for the train alignment are automatically generated based on the car tipping machine information during the car picking operation.

[0019] In some embodiments, based on the manually selected shunting type, a shunting plan for the corresponding shunting type is generated; and / or, based on the manually input reporting point positioning time, the reporting point corresponds to the hooking plan and the current vehicle information on the track is automatically changed.

[0020] In some embodiments, train information with a matching operation plan is extracted according to the matching shunting plan, and train number information in the marshaling operation information table is generated.

[0021] In some embodiments, after the vehicle is assembled,

[0022] Generate a train shunting plan based on the manually input train shunting, coal cleaning tracks and transfer tracks; and / or,

[0023] According to the manually input unloading operation time, the system automatically uploads the unloading operation order to the freight marketing system, and the existing vehicles on the track automatically move from the track before the flip to the track after the flip, and the existing vehicles on the track are automatically unloaded; and / or,

[0024] According to the manually input marshaling and coal cleaning operation time, the reporting point corresponds to the hook plan and updates the current vehicle position on the track.

[0025] In some embodiments, after forming a vehicle formation plan,

[0026] Generate train number information in the train delivery operation information table according to the extracted train number; and / or,

[0027] Generate a train delivery and shunting plan based on the manually input shunting type and pre-port track information; and / or,

[0028] According to the CTC operation information before the port, report the corresponding hook plan and update the track vehicle position; and / or,

[0029] Verify the train number and planned operation diagram information. After successful verification, apply to the operation diagram for adding an additional departure train.

[0030] In some embodiments,

[0031] Receiving and filtering out the arrival plan of box trains from all received train information and generating train information in the box car pick-up and delivery table; and / or,

[0032] Generate a shunting plan for box train pickup and delivery based on manually input shunting type, unloading track and departure track information; and / or,

[0033] According to the manually input time of picking up, unloading and delivering the vehicle, the corresponding hook plan is reported, the unloading operation order is automatically submitted, and the current vehicle position and empty weight information on the track are automatically updated.

[0034] The present disclosure also provides an automatic shunting operation device, the device comprising:

[0035] A train number table generating unit is used to generate a train number list for waiting to pick up the train according to the running line information;

[0036] A train number information generating unit, used for decomposing the trains in the train number list to be picked up according to the train marshaling information to form decomposed train number information;

[0037] A car picking and shunting plan generating unit is used to generate a car picking and shunting plan based on the train number information, shunting type, car dumper and track before dumping;

[0038] A vehicle formation plan generating unit is used to generate a vehicle formation plan based on the vehicle picking and shunting plan.

[0039] Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the following advantages:

[0040] The automatic shunting operation method and device proposed in the present disclosure can reduce the management of railway ports, especially large railway ports, and improve work efficiency.

[0041] Other features and advantages of the present invention will be described in the following description, and partly become apparent from the description, or understood by practicing the present invention. The purpose and other advantages of the present invention can be realized and obtained by the structures pointed out in the description, claims and drawings. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0042] In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings required for use in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings described below are some embodiments of the present invention. For ordinary technicians in this field, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without paying creative work.

[0043] Figure 1 A schematic diagram of a process flow of an automatic shunting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is shown;

[0044] Figure 2 A flow chart of generating train pick-up information according to train running line information according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is shown;

[0045] Figure 3 A further schematic flow chart of an automatic shunting operation method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is shown;

[0046] Figure 4 A schematic diagram of the framework of an automatic shunting operation system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is shown. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0047] In order to make the purpose, technical solution and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solution in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in this field without creative work are within the scope of protection of the present invention.

[0048] Figure 1 FIG. 2 is a flow chart of an automatic shunting method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Figure 1 As shown, a list of trains to be picked up is generated according to the running line information; the trains in the list of trains to be picked up are decomposed according to the train formation information to form the decomposed train information; a pick-up shunting plan is formed based on the train information, shunting type (i.e., shunting locomotive), car tipping locomotive, and pre-tumbling track (i.e., the track where the car is located before unloading the goods, or the track before entering the car tipping locomotive); a vehicle formation plan is generated based on the pick-up shunting plan. Among them, the shunting locomotive in the disclosed embodiment is a shunting locomotive, that is, a locomotive used for shunting operations such as train formation, dismantling, line transfer, and vehicle pick-up and delivery.

[0049] In the disclosed embodiment, the technical operation management system can provide the whole process management of various technical operations of freight trains through vehicle pickup operation management, alignment operation management, marshaling operation management, vehicle delivery operation management and box car pickup and delivery operation management. In the disclosed embodiment, the alignment operation is to park the vehicle at the location where the goods need to be loaded and unloaded.

[0050] The interface of the technical operation management system includes five management section interfaces: car pickup, alignment, marshalling, car delivery, and box car pickup and delivery. It runs through the entire operation process of the train from access, decomposition, loading and unloading, marshalling, unloading (such as coal cleaning), and departure.

[0051] In the disclosed embodiment, through the design of the technical operation management system, the station dispatcher can automatically generate multiple shunting plans only by compiling technical operations on a train basis, and the duty officer can automatically execute the shunting plan, automatically move the vehicle, automatically unload the vehicle, automatically apply for departure trains, etc. only by filling in the operation execution time in the train technical operation table, which greatly saves the workload.

[0052] For the vehicle picking operation management, as shown in the following exemplary Table 1, the vehicle picking operation management fields include the train number, arrival yard, arrival track, current track, whether entering the yard, I yard track, time to enter I yard, tipping machine, track before tipping, alignment, transfer track, shunting machine, departure time, arrival time, alignment start time, alignment end time and operation.

[0053] Table 1 Field table for vehicle pickup operation management

[0054]

[0055] In the vehicle pickup operation management module, you can perform the following operations:

[0056] (1) Receive the planned running line information of the arriving train from the train planning module in real time and generate the train number information of the picking-up train. The train number information of the picking-up train can be adjusted in real time with the planned running line information, that is, when the planned running line information changes, the train number information of the picking-up train can be updated in time.

[0057] (2) Provides the function of decomposing 10,000-ton trains by train load type, such as 20,000-ton and 15,000-ton trains. The system collects train marshaling information in real time, obtains the train number combination relationship of small trains (including unit trains, 10,000-ton trains, 15,000-ton trains and 20,000-ton trains, etc.) from the collected train marshaling information, and provides decomposable train number information for the user's decomposition operation. The decomposed train number information is automatically generated in the decomposition list.

[0058] (3) In the train pick-up operation tab, the station dispatcher only needs to select the shunting type, car tipping machine, and track before tipping data to automatically generate a car pick-up and shunting plan.

[0059] (4) After generating the vehicle pick-up and shunting plan, the port dispatching centralized control CTC (Centralized Train Control) reporting information is received in real time, and the vehicle receiving point at the I-field of the service machine is automatically reported and the current vehicle information is automatically updated.

[0060] (5) After the vehicle pick-up and shunting plan is generated, the port front and port CTC reporting information is received in real time, and the forward track hook plan from the port front to the IV yard (i.e. the yard where the forward track is located) is automatically reported and the track current vehicles are updated.

[0061] (6) The assistant duty officer reports the arrival and departure time and the alignment time. The system automatically reports the time and executes the corresponding hook plan, while automatically updating the current vehicles on the track.

[0062] Figure 2 FIG. 1 shows a flow chart of generating train pick-up information based on train running line information according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Figure 2 As shown, after the running line information is generated or updated, it is determined whether the train information needs to be deleted. If the train information is deleted, it is determined whether the corresponding car pick-up plan has generated a shunting plan. When the shunting plan has been generated, the train deletion information is ignored. When the shunting plan has not been generated, the corresponding car pick-up plan is deleted; if the train information is not deleted, it is determined whether the corresponding car pick-up plan has been generated. If the corresponding car pick-up plan has not been generated, the corresponding car pick-up plan is generated; if the corresponding car pick-up plan has been generated, it is determined whether the corresponding car pick-up plan has generated a shunting plan. If the corresponding car pick-up plan has not generated a shunting plan, the car pick-up plan information is updated. If the corresponding car pick-up plan has generated a shunting plan, the running line update information is ignored.

[0063] For alignment operation management, as shown in the following exemplary Table 2, the alignment operation management fields include fields such as train number, tipping machine, track before tipping, machine adjustment, alignment start time, alignment end time and operation.

[0064] Table 2 Alignment job management field table

[0065]

[0066] In the alignment operation management module, you can perform the following operations:

[0067] (1) The system automatically selects trains that have not been aligned during the car picking operation and generates train information for the alignment operation. As shown in Table 2, the 8598 train did not undergo alignment, so it was aligned at 18:35 and ended at 18:52. For aligned trains, since the rear track corresponding to the car tipper (i.e., the track where the car is located after unloading the cargo) is fixed, the car tipper information in the car picking operation can be automatically generated for the train alignment and the rear track information in the shunting plan.

[0068] (2) The station dispatcher only needs to select the shunting type (i.e., locomotive shunting), and the system will automatically generate a shunting plan for the corresponding shunting type.

[0069] (3) The assistant duty officer reports the time for the corresponding hooking plan and the system automatically changes the track vehicle information.

[0070] For marshalling operation management, as shown in the following exemplary Table 3, the marshalling operation management fields include fields such as train number, dumper, shunting machine, transfer track, coal cleaning yard, coal cleaning track, start of unloading, end of unloading, start of marshalling, end of marshalling, start of coal cleaning, end of coal cleaning and operation.

[0071] Table 3 Marshalling operation management field table

[0072]

[0073] In the marshaling operation management module, after forming a vehicle marshaling plan, you can perform the following operations:

[0074] (1) The system automatically extracts trains with matching operation plans and generates train number information in the marshaling operation information table.

[0075] (2) The station dispatcher sets the train shunting, coal cleaning track (i.e. the final destination track of the train in the marshaling plan, where coal cleaning is carried out after arriving at the track), and transfer track, and the system automatically generates the marshaling shunting plan.

[0076] (3) The assistant duty officer fills in the unloading operation time, and the system automatically uploads the unloading operation order to the freight marketing system. The vehicle on the track automatically moves from the track before the flip to the track after the flip, and the vehicle on the track is automatically unloaded (that is, it is linked with the vehicle system, and the vehicle information in the vehicle system is changed from a heavy vehicle to an empty vehicle, that is, the unloading operation is automatically performed).

[0077] (4) The assistant duty officer fills in the marshaling and coal cleaning operation time, and the system automatically reports the corresponding hooking plan and updates the current vehicle position on the track.

[0078] For the management of vehicle delivery operations, as shown in the following exemplary Table 4, the vehicle delivery operation management fields include fields such as train number, current track, vehicle delivery track, locomotive shunting, vehicle delivery start, vehicle delivery end, train number in the first small train, locomotive shunting, combination start, combination end, train number in the second small train, locomotive shunting, combination start, combination end, and operation.

[0079] Table 4 Field table for vehicle delivery operation management

[0080]

[0081] In actual combination, it is necessary to combine according to the actual train operation plan. Some need to be reassembled into 10,000-ton trains through the combination plan, and then the train delivery plan is made to deliver them to the port. Based on this, in the above table of the implementation of this disclosure, small trains 1 and 2 are used to distinguish the unit trains after the tipping machine.

[0082] In the vehicle delivery operation management module, you can perform the following operations:

[0083] (1) After the marshaling plan is generated, the marshaling train number is generated in real time in the train delivery list. The system automatically extracts the marshaling train number and generates the train number information in the train delivery operation information table.

[0084] (2) The system provides a train combination function, that is, the unit trains are combined to automatically generate a combined 10,000-ton train. For example, as shown in Table 4, a small train combination of small train 1 and small train 2 is generated.

[0085] (3) The station dispatcher sets the shunting type and the pre-port track information (whose display name is the train delivery track), and the system automatically generates a train delivery shunting plan.

[0086] (4) The system receives the CTC operation information before the port in real time, automatically reports the corresponding hook plan and updates the current vehicle position on the track.

[0087] (5) The system automatically verifies the train number and the planned operation diagram information, and automatically applies to the operation diagram for adding a departure train.

[0088] For the management of box car pick-up and delivery operations, as shown in the following exemplary Table 5, the box car pick-up and delivery operation management fields include fields such as train number, number of cars, arrival yard, arrival track, shunting locomotive, unloading track, start of car pick-up, end of car pick-up, start of unloading, end of unloading, departure train number, shunting locomotive, departure track, start of car delivery, end of car delivery and operation.

[0089] Table 5: Field table for box truck pickup and delivery operation management

[0090]

[0091] In the box truck pickup and delivery operation management module, you can perform the following operations:

[0092] (1) The system receives information about all trains in real time, selects box trains from the received train information, determines the arrival schedule of the box trains, and generates train information in the box train pick-up and delivery table.

[0093] (2) The station dispatcher sets the shunting type, unloading track and departure track information, and the system automatically generates a shunting plan for picking up and delivering box trains.

[0094] (3) The assistant duty officer fills in the time for picking up, unloading and delivering the vehicle. The system automatically reports the corresponding hooking plan, automatically submits the unloading operation order, and automatically updates the current vehicle position and empty weight (i.e., empty or loaded) information on the track.

[0095] Figure 3 FIG. 2 shows a further flow chart of an automatic shunting operation method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Figure 3As shown, in the vehicle picking operation management stage, a list of trains to be picked up is generated according to the running line information, and it is determined whether the current train needs to be split into small trains. If splitting is required, it is split into 10,000-ton (by cargo weight) trains or small trains; if splitting is not required, it is determined whether the train needs to enter the relevant site, for example, whether it needs to enter the first yard. If it needs to enter the first yard, the corresponding track in the first yard is selected; if it does not need to enter the first yard, the information such as the dumper track is selected to generate a vehicle picking plan. In the alignment operation management stage, it is determined whether to select the train for alignment. If the train does not need to be aligned, the shunting is selected to generate an alignment plan, and then the cargo unloading (such as coal cleaning) track is selected to generate a marshaling plan; if the train needs to be aligned, the cargo unloading (such as coal cleaning) track is directly selected to generate a marshaling plan. In the marshaling operation management stage, it is determined whether the train needs to be combined. If combination is required, the combined train number and track are selected, and the combination plan is generated according to the shunting, and the vehicle delivery operation management stage is entered; if combination is not required, the combined train number and track are selected, and the vehicle delivery operation management stage is directly entered. During the operation management stage, select track locomotive to generate a vehicle delivery plan.

[0096] Based on the above method steps, the present disclosure also provides an automatic shunting operation system. Figure 4 The automatic shunting operation system shown includes a train schedule generating unit, a train schedule information generating unit, a vehicle pick-up and shunting plan generating unit and a vehicle marshaling plan generating unit which are electrically connected, wherein:

[0097] A train number table generating unit is used to generate a train number list to be picked up according to the running line information; a train number information generating unit is used to decompose the trains in the train number list to be picked up according to the train marshaling information to form the decomposed train number information; a train picking and shunting plan generating unit is used to form a train picking and shunting plan based on the train number information, shunting type, car tipping machine and pre-turning track; a vehicle marshaling plan generating unit is used to generate a vehicle marshaling plan based on the train picking and shunting plan.

[0098] Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the aforementioned embodiments, those skilled in the art should understand that they can still modify the technical solutions described in the aforementioned embodiments, or make equivalent substitutions for some of the technical features therein; and these modifications or substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions deviate from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

1. An automatic shunting operation method, the method comprising: Generate a list of vehicles to be picked up based on the operation line information; Decomposing the trains in the train number list to be picked up according to the train marshaling information to form decomposed train number information; A car picking and shunting plan is formed based on the train information, shunting type, car dumper and track before shunting, including: judging whether it is necessary to split the current train into small trains, and if it is necessary to split, split it into 10,000-ton trains or small trains measured by cargo weight; if it is not necessary to split, judging whether the train is to enter the first yard, and if it is necessary to enter the first yard, selecting the corresponding track in the first yard; if it is not necessary to enter the first yard, selecting the car dumper track information to generate a car picking plan; judging whether to select to align the train, and if it is not necessary to align the train, selecting the shunting machine to generate an alignment plan, and then selecting the cargo unloading track to generate a formation plan; if it is necessary to align the train, directly selecting the cargo unloading track to generate a formation plan; determining whether it is necessary to combine the trains, and if it is necessary to combine, selecting the combined train number and track, generating a combination plan according to the shunting machine, and entering the car delivery operation management stage; if it is not necessary to combine, selecting the combined train number and track, and directly selecting the track shunting machine to generate a car delivery plan; A vehicle marshaling plan is generated based on the vehicle picking and shunting plan.

2. The automatic shunting operation method according to claim 1, wherein: After forming a plan for picking up and shunting vehicles, According to the received CTC reporting information from the port and the port dispatching centralized control, the company will automatically report the airport pick-up point and automatically update the current vehicle information; and / or, According to the received CTC reporting information from the port front and the port dispatching centralized control, the hook plan from the port front to the pre-turn track is automatically reported and the current vehicles on the track are updated.

3. The automatic shunting method according to any one of claims 1 to 2, wherein: Filter the trains that have not been aligned during the vehicle picking operation and generate the alignment train information; The information of the car tipping machine and the track after tipping for the train is automatically generated based on the car tipping machine information in the car picking operation.

4. The automatic shunting operation method according to claim 1, wherein: Based on the manually selected shunting type, a shunting plan for the corresponding shunting type is generated; and / or, According to the manually input reporting point alignment time, the reporting point corresponds to the hook plan and automatically changes the track vehicle information.

5. The automatic shunting method according to claim 4, wherein: According to the shunting plan, the train information with the shunting operation plan is extracted to generate the train number information in the marshalling operation information table.

6. The automatic shunting method according to any one of claims 1-2, wherein: After the vehicle is assembled, Generate a train shunting plan based on the manually input train shunting, coal cleaning tracks and transfer tracks; and / or, According to the manually input unloading operation time, the system automatically uploads the unloading operation order to the freight marketing system, and the existing vehicles on the track automatically move from the track before the flip to the track after the flip, and the existing vehicles on the track are automatically unloaded; and / or, According to the manually input marshaling and coal cleaning operation time, the reporting point corresponds to the hook plan and updates the current vehicle position on the track.

7. The automatic shunting method according to any one of claims 1-2, wherein: After forming the vehicle formation plan, Generate train number information in the train delivery operation information table according to the extracted train number; and / or, Generate a train delivery and shunting plan based on the manually input shunting type and pre-port track information; and / or, According to the CTC operation information of the port-to-port dispatching, the corresponding hook plan is reported and the current vehicle position on the track is updated; and / or, Verify the train number and planned operation diagram information. After successful verification, apply to the operation diagram for adding an additional departure train.

8. The automatic shunting method according to any one of claims 1-2, wherein: Receiving and filtering out the arrival plan of box trains from all received train information and generating train information in the box car pick-up and delivery table; and / or, Generate a shunting plan for box train pickup and delivery based on manually input shunting type, unloading track and departure track information; and / or, According to the manually input time of picking up, unloading and delivering the vehicle, the corresponding hook plan is reported, the unloading operation order is automatically submitted, and the current vehicle position and empty weight information on the track are automatically updated.

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