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    Railway Timetable Stability Analysis: Case of Addis Ababa LRT
    (Addis Ababa University, 2014) Asfaw, Workineh; Gulelat, Gatew (PhD)
    Recently, railway traffic has increased considerably in the different parts of the world; moreover, it is expected that railway transportation will further grow for both passenger and freight transportation. These developments create needs to optimize both the utilization of the existing infrastructure and the coordination tasks inside the railway company. Specially, the process times at stations should be well monitored to deliver efficient services. Railway timetable is affected by several factors. The fact that makes the case more serious is that a disturbance encountered one train may propagate to the whole network unless a timetable that absorbs the fluctuation has been designed. This makes the railway timetable to be the heart of railway operation. Hence, the thesis at hand is aimed to develop stability analysis method which is used to design more stable timetable to handle the disturbances occurring to the railway network. In this research, both the interior and exterior factors that affect railway timetable stability were taken into account. In view of that, at the end of the research work, a model that is used to analyze trains timetable stability has been developed. The developed model is applicable to passengers’ railway network like Addis Ababa LRT.