Three approaches to simulating a rail rapid-transit system are compared. The system is itself partly continuous in nature (equations of motion, for example) and partly discrete (dispatch of trains, for example). The three approaches are (1) a basi cally continuous model modified to accept discrete events, (2) a basically discrete model modified to accept representations of continuous portions, and (3) a combined model designed to accommodate both the discrete and continuous parts.
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