Junction is a railway operations analysis tool for small-scale infrastructure, such as construction projects. It focuses on quickly building or importing infrastruture models, and then letting you dispatch trains to examine capacity properties of the track layout and signaling equipment. You can manage several dispatch scenarios and see how their timelines change when you make changes to the infrastructure. Junction also features an auto-dispatch mode, where you supply a high-level description of operations, and the program works out the required dispatch commands needed to execute the operations, resulting in a set of test cases for your signaling design that help you when making changes as your project progresses.
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Quickly build the infrastructure of tracks and signaling equipment by drawing lines on a grid. Switches and crossings are automatically identified and displayed based on the lines.
See Infrastructure.
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Dispatch individual trains using train routes by pointing to the starting location of a train route and selecting a route from the menu.
See Dispatching.
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Build plans representing train operations such as crossing, overtaking, train frequency, etc., and get a list of possible dispatch patterns that satisfy the plans. When you continue adjusting the infrastructure, the plans will be updated and you can check at a glance that operations are still working.
See Planning.
