Interesting program
OpenTrack Features
OpenTrack is a planning and simulation tool for railway operations, which has been developed in recent years at the Institute for Traffic Planning and Transport Systems at ETH Zurich. OpenTrack offers support for the following tasks:

business
Capacity determination of nodes
Capacity determination of routes
Finding capacity bottlenecks
Calculate train follow-up times
Occupation times of station tracks
Optimization of train runs
Determine the effects of interference on the overall network
Planning of construction sites in the network
Visualization of operational processes (vehicles, routes, signals)
infrastructure
Calculate different infrastructure variants
Determination of the need for expansion
Dimensioning of security systems
Management of infrastructure data using a graphical user interface
timetable
Calculate travel times
Check the feasibility and stability of timetables and connections, identify conflicts
rolling
Planning round trips, resource planning
Determine requirements for future vehicles
How OpenTrack works
The sequence of a simulation is shown in the figure above. Predefined trains move under the boundary conditions of the schedule data on a defined track topology. The mixed discrete / continuous simulation on the one hand calculates the numerical solution of the differential equation of motion of the vehicles (continuous part), on the other hand the discrete processes in the system (change of interlocking states, delay distributions) are simulated. During the simulation the track topology can be viewed in an animation mode. The moving trains, the prepared routes and the current signal positions are visualized. The simulation can be interrupted at any time so that it can intervene directly in the process and change certain boundary conditions if necessary.

After the simulation run, various evaluations are available:

Stretch / speed charts
track occupation
acceleration behavior
Logs of disabilities and disorders
Image timetables (graphic timetables)
Blocking time stairways
Tractive force curve, power consumption
Target / actual comparison of schedule data
The OpenTrack application

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http://www.opentrack.ch/

Teaching model H0 at the Faculty of Transportation Sciences in Zagreb
On February 13, 2019, at the Faculty of Transport Sciences in Zagreb, a solemn presentation of the scale model H0 was made by the railway modeler Robert Šlais in collaboration with several faculty professors. The dimensions of this impressive model are 3 x 7.5 meters and consist of 122 meters of track network, 104 signal signs, 65 switches, 2 LCPs and 4 official positions. It is computer controlled with iTrain software and is fully automated and manually operated. The model has 5 supervisory and management positions, 4 of which are for students and one for professors, and will serve as a tool for teaching students of the railway traffic direction.

Croatian Rail signals are handmade

The rail and trains are Roco

AACHEN UNIVERSITY

In Aachen, in the early 60's, a large scale layout 0 was made to train various occupations on the railway


Later, an electronic scale (ESTW) layout of H0 was made

Last year, the completed new complex (Eisenbahntechnische Lehr- und Versuchsanlage, ELVA) was opened.

http://www.via.rwth-aachen.de/elva.php

At the end of the 80's, a new large layout with Marklin K railway was made in Aljaževo near Ljubljana / Slovenia.
There used to be a smaller layout with a Marklin M railroad in that high school center.

The relief is made more symbolic

Signals are handmade according to the rights in Slovenia