Analysis of transportation system with the use of Petri nets

The paper considers problem of city transportation system performance. Reliability analysis of such a complex system is complicated by several factors. One of them is the possibility of logistic support elements unreliability defined as unavailability of spare elements when desired, what in result may lead to decrease of performance of the system being supported. Thus, both systems must be considered in a single model. However, the simultaneous setting of all structural parameters (e.g. redundancy, repair shop capacity) and control variables (e.g. spare part inventory levels, maintenance policy parameters, time resource) is mathematically a hard problem. This paper investigates Petri net model of the system with the use of Monte Carlo simulation as a solution technique. Comparison of the simulation results with characteristics of real-life system is given.