A method for finding the correspondence between a railway station model and its visual representation based on graphs

The paper proposes a method for searching and comparing objects of the railway station model in the database format to the corresponding objects of the station visual representation in the SVG file format. The method is based on reducing the structure of a railway station to a directed asymmetric graph and using comparison algorithms to find correspondences between topological and actual characteristics of objects. The method includes comparing nodes and connections of the model graph with structural elements of the station visual representation. The paper also proposes a software tool that implements the proposed method. The software tool was tested in an experiment involving three employees, which revealed the average number of inconsistencies found, as well as the average time of the inconsistency search process before and after automation. The result of the research is that the method increases the accuracy of the process by two times and accelerates it by five times.