Rescheduling models for railway traffic management in large-scale networks

In the last decades of railway operations research, microscopic models have been intensively studied to support traffic operators in managing their dispatching areas. However, those models result in long computation times for large and highly utilized networks. The problem of controlling country-wide traffic is still open since the coordination of local areas is hard to tackle in short time and there are multiple interdependencies between trains across the whole network. This work is dedicated to the development of new macroscopic models that are able to incorporate traffic management decisions. Objective of this paper is to investigate how different levels of detail and number of operational constraints may affect the applicability of models for network-wide rescheduling in terms of quality of solutions and computation time. The authors present four different macroscopic models and test them on the Dutch national timetable. The macroscopic models are compared with a state-of-the-art microscopic model. Trade-off between computation time and solution quality is discussed on various disturbed traffic conditions.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12469-013-0063-y
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  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Springer.
• Authors:
  • Kecman, Pavle
  • Corman, Francesco
  • D'Ariano, Andrea
  • Goverde, Rob M P
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 95-123
• Serial:
  • Public Transport
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue Number: 1-2
  • Publisher: Springer Publishing
  • ISSN: 1866-749X
  • EISSN: 1613-7159
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/12469

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Macroscopic traffic flow; Networks; Railroads; Scheduling; Traffic control
• Uncontrolled Terms: Rescheduling
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01496873
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 26 2013 9:33AM