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Using strategic timetables as input for railway network design has become increasingly popular among western European railway infrastructure operators. Although both railway timetabling and railway network design on their own are well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Tim Sander , Nadine Friesen , Karl Nachtigall , Nils Nießen

The railway timetables are designed in an optimal manner to maximize the capacity usage of the infrastructure concerning different objectives besides avoiding conflicts. The real-time railway traffic management problem occurs when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 László Lindenmaier , István Ferenc Lövétei , Szilárd Aradi

Railway scheduling and timetabling are common stages in the classical hierarchical railway planning process and they perhaps represent the step with major influence on user's perception about quality of service. This aspect, in conjunction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-24 David Canca , Eva Barrena , Encarnación Algaba , Alejandro Zarzo

Because of the long planning periods and their long life cycle, railway infrastructure has to be outlined long ahead. At the present, the infrastructure is designed while only little about the intended operation is known. Hence, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Nadine Friesen , Tim Sander , Karl Nachtigall , Nils Nießen

Train scheduling is one of the significant issues in the railway industry in recent years since it has an important role in efficacy of railway infrastructure. In this paper, the timetabling problem of a multiple tracked railway network is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Afshin Oroojlooy Jadid , Kourosh Eshghi

We investigate the stochastic transfer synchronization problem, which seeks to synchronize the timetables of different routes in a transit network to reduce transfer waiting times, delay times, and unnecessary in-vehicle times. We present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Zahra Ansarilari , Merve Bodur , Amer Shalaby

This paper proposes a macroscopic model to describe the equilibrium distribution of passenger arrivals for the morning commute problem in a congested urban rail transit system. We use a macroscopic train operation sub-model developed by Seo…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Jiahua Zhang , Kentaro Wada , Takashi Oguchi

We study the problem of computing all Pareto-optimal journeys in a public transit network regarding the two criteria of arrival time and number of transfers taken. In recent years, great advances have been made in making public transit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Sascha Witt

Both evaluating the service quality of a public transport system and understanding how passengers choose between modes or routes is imperative for public transport operators, providers of competing mobility services and policy makers.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Rolf Nelson van Lieshout , Kevin Dalmeijer

This paper presents a novel approach to analysing railway timetable connectivity using complex network theory and the Infomap clustering algorithm. By transforming railway timetables into network representations, we examine the connectivity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-22 Fabio Lamanna , Michele Prisma , Giorgio Medeossi

Railway scheduling consists in ensuring that a set of trains evolve in a shared rail network without collisions, while meeting schedule constraints. This problem is notoriously difficult, even more in the case of uncertain or even unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Étienne André

Periodic timetables are widely adopted in passenger railway operations due to their regular service patterns and well-coordinated train connections. However, fluctuations in passenger demand require varying train services across different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Zhiyuan Yao , Anita Schöbel , Lei Nie , Sven Jäger

Improving traffic management in case of perturbation is one of the main challenges in today's railway research. The great majority of the existing literature proposes approaches to make centralized decisions to minimize delay propagation.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Federico Naldini , Fabio Oddi , Leo D'Amato , Grégory Marlière , Vito Trianni , Paola Pellegrini

Synchrony is one of the most common dynamical states emerging on networks. The speed of convergence towards synchrony provides a fundamental collective time scale for synchronizing systems. Here we study the asymptotic synchronization times…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-30 Carsten Grabow , Stefan Grosskinsky , Marc Timme

This document is the third sub-report from the research project SATT (Samplanering av trafikp{\aa}verkande {\aa}tg\"arder och trafikfl\"oden, modellstudie / Coordinated planning of temporary capacity restrictions and traffic flows, model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Tomas Lidén , Martin Aronsson

Most transportation networks are inherently temporal: Connections (e.g. flights, train runs) are only available at certain, scheduled times. When transporting passengers or commodities, this fact must be considered for the the planning of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Eugen Füchsle , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Malte Renken

The problem of optimization of the rolling dynamics model is considered. That providing safe movement at high frequency when interacting with the railway. Moreover, allowing to evaluate the dynamic parameters when designing new and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Anas M. Al-Oraiqat , Alexander Y. Ivanov , Yuriy A. Ivanov

This study introduces a novel methodology for managing train network disruptions across the entire rail network, leveraging digital tools and methodologies. The approach involves two stages, taking into account possible and practical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Shayan Bafandkar , Yousef Shafahi , Alireza Eslami , Alireza Yazdiani

Global infrastructure robustness and local transport efficiency are critical requirements for transportation networks. However, since passengers often travel greedily to maximize their own benefit and trigger traffic jams, overall…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-01-09 Alessandro Lonardi , Caterina De Bacco

Robust travel time predictions are of prime importance in managing any transportation infrastructure, and particularly in rail networks where they have major impacts both on traffic regulation and passenger satisfaction. We aim at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Farid Arthaud , Guillaume Lecoeur , Alban Pierre
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