This thesis deals with the travel time of trains. The basic equations, which are used to
determine the forces affecting the movement of trains at any given time are, presented.
Newton's second law, which describes the movement of objects, was used to establish the
differential equation of a train's movement. The procedure of dividing a track based on speed
limits and changes in the infrastructure is described as well in this paper. The emphasis of this
thesis is on the algorithm of establishing the travel time of a random train on a random track.
The algorithm includes the processing of the train's and track's input data, the modelling of the
train and the track and the solving of the equation of motion by a difference equation approach
using the numerical »step-by-step« method as well. The solution of the equation is a certain
train's shortest travel time possible. The algorithm to calculate travel time is implemented with
the Visual Basic programming language in Excel. A few calculations of specific examples which
can be interesting from a designing perspective are shown in the final part of the paper.
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