Simulation tasks for the didactic stand

In the field of railway transport many activities are taken to achieve higher availability of offered services. A few of them consider more flexible rules of creating and starting trains. This requirement translates into greater complexity of railway traffic opertional management and control (RTMC). At the Faculty of Transport of Warsaw University of Technology classes for students have been conducted for several years with the use of the KSR-EDU stand. Taking into account the described trends of railway traffic nature, the KSR-EDU stand was connected to a simulator of real railway traffic. This connection allows to practice various and more complicated movement scenarios. The article describes RTMC layer model and simulator architecture in general. Two simulation tasks are described in details. The algorithms of simulation tasks for different levels of simulation are presented. In the end the benefits arising from application of the simulation for particular didactic tasks are discussed.