Passenger Railway Optimization

This chapter describes how railway systems are highly complex systems. Therefore, planning and operational processes related to railway systems are rich in interesting combinatorial optimization problems. Well known examples of these are operational planning problems such as line planning, timetabling, platforming, rolling stock circulation, shunting and crew planning. One of the aims of this chapter is to illustrate the fact that railway systems have an abundance of interesting combinatorial optimization problems. Currently, many of these problems are still solved manually in practice, partly due to the traditionally rather conservative character of the railway industry. On the other hand, the innovative possibilities provided by the effective application of mathematical models and optimization techniques are also recognized by the railway industry itself, and software applications based on these techniques should grasp the currently available momentum and opportunities in the railway industry by not focusing too much on theoretical results, but by going for real-world applications of models and techniques. The latter will lead to a win-win situation, both for the researchers and for the railway industry.

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  Elsevier

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• Authors:
  • Caprara, Alberto
  • Kroon, Leo
  • Monaci, Michele
  • Toth, Paulo
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: Volume 14
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 129-187
• Monograph Title: Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crew size; Line extensions (Rail transit); Optimization; Passenger transportation; Railroad transportation; Railroads; Rolling stock; Schedules and scheduling; Timetables
• Uncontrolled Terms: Railroad platforms; Shunting scheduling
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Passenger Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01109134
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 97804444513465
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 22 2008 8:43AM