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This paper focuses on passenger-oriented real-time train rescheduling, considering flexible train composition and rolling stock circulation, by integrating learning-based and optimization-based approaches. A learning-based model predictive…

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It is an important objective pursued in a railway agency or company to reduce the major maintenance costs of electric multiple unit (EMU). The EMU major maintenance schedule decides when to undergo major maintenance or undertake…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Jianping Wu , Boliang Lin

Buses are known to be an unstable system, and as a result they struggle to stay on schedule and/or to maintain regular headways. In current practice, transit agencies add significant slack to the schedule and hold buses until their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Paul Anderson , Carlos F. Daganzo

In intelligent transportation systems (ITS), adaptive transit signal priority (TSP) and dynamic bus control systems have been independently developed to maintain efficient and reliable urban bus services. However, those two systems could…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Shurui Guan , Keqiang Li , Haoyu Yang , Yihe Chen , Hanxiao Ren , Yugong Luo

We study the journey planning problem in public transit networks. Developing efficient preprocessing-based speedup techniques for this problem has been challenging: current approaches either require massive preprocessing effort or provide…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Daniel Delling , Julian Dibbelt , Thomas Pajor , Renato F. Werneck

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 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

The performance of multimodal mobility systems relies on the seamless integration of conventional mass transit services and the advent of Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) services. Prior work is limited to individually improving various transport…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Qi Luo , Samitha Samaranayake , Siddhartha Banerjee

Train timetable rescheduling (TTR) aims to promptly restore the original operation of trains after unexpected disturbances or disruptions. Currently, this work is still done manually by train dispatchers, which is challenging to maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Peng Yue , Yaochu Jin , Xuewu Dai , Zhenhua Feng , Dongliang Cui

In many real world scheduling problems, the processing times of tasks are subject to uncertainty. This makes it essential to design schedules that are robust and able to handle potential disruptions. Therefore, we investigate measures that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Casper Loman , Loriana Pascual , Marjan van den Akker , Roel van den Broek , Han Hoogeveen

This paper deals with operational models for integrated shift and task scheduling problem. Staff scheduling problem is a special case of this with staff requirements as given input to the problem. Both problems become hard to solve when the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-17 G S R Murthy , T R Lalita

For all line-based transit systems like bus, metro and tram, the routes of the lines and the frequencies at which they are operated are determining for the operational performance of the system. However, as transit line planning happens…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Marie Schmidt , Anita Schöbel

This study addresses the urban transit pattern design problem, optimizing stop sequences, headways, and fleet sizes across multiple routes and periods simultaneously to minimize user costs (composed of riding, waiting, and transfer times)…

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For high-density metro traffic, nowadays the time-variant passenger flow is the main cause of train delays and stranded passengers. Typically, the main objective of automatic metro traffic regulation methods is to minimize the delay time of…

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This article considers the stochastic on-time arrival problem in transit networks where both the travel time and the waiting time for transit services are stochastic. A specific challenge of this problem is the combinatorial solution space…

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Tensor train (TT) decomposition provides a space-efficient representation for higher-order tensors. Despite its advantage, we face two crucial limitations when we apply the TT decomposition to machine learning problems: the lack of…

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We study the solution of a large-scale transportation problem with an additional constraint on the sparsity of inbound flows. Such problems arise in the management of inventory for online retailers that operate with many order fulfillment…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-12 Annie I. Chen , Stephen C. Graves

The real-time Railway Traffic Management Problem (rtRTMP) is a challenging optimisation problem in railway transportation. It involves the efficient management of train movements while minimising delay propagation caused by unforeseen…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Leo D'Amato , Paola Pellegrini , Vito Trianni

The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a classical combinatorial optimisation problem. Deep learning has been successfully extended to meta-learning, where previous solving efforts assist in learning how to optimise future optimisation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Nasrin Sultana , Jeffrey Chan , A. K. Qin , Tabinda Sarwar

Optimal transport is a framework for comparing measures whereby a cost is incurred for transporting one measure to another. Recent works have aimed to improve optimal transport plans through the introduction of various forms of structure.…

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