Research Article

Design of a High-Speed Railway Passenger Train Operation Scheme considering Survivability of the Network

Table 1

Definition differences of key nodes and key edges in the railway physical network and the railway transport service network.

 Railway physical networkRailway transportation service network

The key nodesDescribe the importance of a station in a railway infrastructure, independent of train pick-up, passenger landing, and other transport servicesDescribe the importance of the station in railway transportation, focusing on the description of the station train reception and departure, passenger travel, and other service indicators
The key edgesDescribe the importance of interstation or interstation lines in the railway infrastructure, independent of traffic density, cross section passenger flow, etcDescribe the importance of railway lines between stations or between stations in railway transportation, focusing on the description of traffic density, section passenger flow, and other transport service indicators