The Reasonable Time Domain of the Sunset-Departure and Sunrise-Arrival Trains on High-Speed Railway Running in the Form of Periodic Maintenance Window

As a kind of developing high-speed railway transport product, the sunset-departure and sunrise-arrival trains on high-speed railway (SDSAT-HSR) has attracted much attention due to its unique transport characteristics and good market reputation. It is an important content of compiling the train operation plan which determined the reasonable running time domain of the SDSAT-HSR. Based on the existing method of determining the reasonable departure and arrival range time and the definition of the SDSAT-HSR in high-speed railway, this paper applies the congruence theory. Considering the factors of passenger service quality, opening periodic maintenance window, and passenger travel habits, this paper gives a method to determine the reasonable time range of departure and arrival in the mode of periodic maintenance window through the analysis of the examples. In view of the fact that all the SDSAT-HSR running across lines at present, this paper analyses the reasonable time range of the SDSAT-HSR at the crossing points, which is divided into two kinds of cases: the non-parking station and the parking station. It has a certain reference value for the drawing of train diagram.