A Railway Alignment Optimization Method Based on Minimum Cost

In order to automatically generate the railway Alignment, an alignment optimization method based on minimum cost is proposed. Firstly, an optimization model based on the coupling constraints of line-structure-environment is established, in which the comprehensive cost of engineering, operations, and the environment is considered as the objective function. Then based on the regular grids, the Geographic Information Data can be obtained and the comprehensive cost of the connection between two grids can be calculated. At last, the optimal connection between the grids is analyzed under the angle constraint and elevation constraint, thus the optimal alignment can be generated by the connection of grids.