Rail Library
The AnyLogic Rail Library helps you design and test rail networks of any scale, from airport shuttles and subway lines to national networks and industrial yards in a risk-free environment. Build layouts, define train behavior, and run rail simulation scenarios to optimize capacity, routing, and operations before real-world changes.
Transform Operationswith Rail Simulation Software
Make better decisions across your network with the AnyLogic Rail Library by testing scenarios, uncovering constraints, and improving performance without risk.
Model Real SystemsWith Rail Simulation
Use the Rail Library to turn real rail systems into a working simulation model in AnyLogic. Build rail infrastructure layouts in 2D, define train movement, and model operating logic, then visualize operations and interactions in 3D.
Use Simulation Software to Solve Real-World Rail Challenges
Use the AnyLogic Rail Library to model and improve rail systems across networks, terminals, yards, and maintenance facilities in one flexible environment.
Assess system-wide capacity, test demand scenarios, and identify infrastructure bottlenecks across complex rail networks.
Shape how trains move through the network under priority rules, signaling constraints, route conflicts, and track closures.
Evaluate throughput, track utilization, shunting flows, and service reliability in stations and rail yards.
Balance fleet size, train types, and asset distribution based on real system behavior.
Test schedules, station layouts, and service flows to improve station performance and reduce congestion.
Model rail operations in ports and intermodal hubs to optimize schedules, infrastructure, and cargo handling processes.
Why AnyLogic as Rail Simulation Software?
Model, test, and improve rail systems with the AnyLogic Rail Library, combining detailed operational logic, scalability, and seamless integration with the wider simulation environment.
Digital twin implementation
Create dynamic, data-connected digital twins of your operations to monitor real-time performance, anticipate future states, test decisions, and continuously optimize outcomes. Digital twins in AnyLogic provide you with a virtual playground for exploring possible future scenarios.
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Cloud deployment
Run, share, and scale your simulations in the Cloud, publicly or privately. Our Cloud platform supports parallel execution, collaborative modeling, and seamless API access to integrate with enterprise systems and build custom applications around your models. AnyLogic is the only simulation vendor with a fully functional Cloud solution.
Learn moreEnterprise simulation
Turn simulation into a core enterprise capability. Embed simulation models directly into business processes, connecting them with enterprise systems such as ERP, CRM, and BI tools.
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Simulation + AI
Enhance your models with AI capabilities. Use simulation to generate synthetic data, apply reinforcement learning models, and use an AI-driven assistant to help you build simulation models.
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Connect, extend, and integrate without limits. AnyLogic is designed as an open platform that seamlessly integrates with your existing technology stack, data sources, and enterprise systems.
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Choose your 3D level of detail
Make your models as detailed as you like. Benefit from AnyLogic’s built-in 3D capabilities. When needed, use the official AnyLogic-NVIDIA Omniverse integration that allows simulation modelers to create photorealistic animation.
Learn moreMultimethod simulation
Model any manufacturing or warehouse systems and processes efficiently, without compromise. Combine main simulation methods and different AnyLogic libraries in unified models and switch seamlessly between different levels of abstraction.
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Discover and Combine AnyLogic Libraries
AnyLogic provides you with six built-in libraries for the most popular domains and use cases. Combine their intuitive drag-and-drop elements to accurately model the logic, constraints, and dynamics of your real-world systems. All within a single simulation environment.
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Process Modeling Library
To model operational workflows across industries
Material Handling Library
To model and optimize material flows in factories, warehouses, and more
Explore Models Built With the Rail Library
In this Railway Station model, passengers enter through the main hall, find their platforms, and wait where their train cars will stop. Trains arrive every minute, passengers exit, and new ones board in a seamless flow.
Explore this and other rail simulation models in AnyLogic Cloud to see how different networks perform in real time.
Discover How Rail Simulation Software Works in Practice
See how companies use rail simulation to uncover bottlenecks, test decisions, and improve performance. Explore real case studies to find out how simulation solves complex rail challenges.
Take a Closer Look at
Rail Simulation Software
Check out our blog posts, how-tos, on-demand webinars, academic articles, and other materials to see the impact of rail simulation and best practices in action.
From reactive to predictive rail operations
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Fundamentals of AnyLogic Rail Library
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AnyLogic rail library: cases, overview & AI
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Boosting rail capacity in the port of Hamburg
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FAQs About Rail Simulation Software
The AnyLogic Rail Library is a specialized toolkit within AnyLogic that allows you to model, simulate, and optimize rail systems of any scale, from urban transit to large national networks.
Rail simulation software lets you test infrastructure, schedules, routing logic, shunting processes, and operational scenarios in a risk-free environment to improve performance and avoid costly real-world mistakes.
You can start with basic assumptions and refine your model over time, but importing real data from GIS, databases, or operational systems helps create more accurate and reliable simulations.
Yes, the Rail Library allows you to combine track layouts, signaling, train behavior, and operational rules in a single model to reflect how the entire system works together.
Yes, the Rail Library works seamlessly with other AnyLogic libraries, allowing you to model complete systems such as intermodal hubs, stations, and urban environments.
