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Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in solving various combinatorial optimization problems. However, conventional RL faces challenges when dealing with complex, real-world constraints, especially when action space feasibility is…

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Railcars, as part of the rolling stock, perform regular transportation tasks with respect to a service level agreement (SLA) and undergo preventive maintenance at regular intervals based on the recommendations of train manufacturers. When…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Murat Elhüseyni , Burak Kocuk

Public transport is vital for meeting people's mobility needs. Providers need to plan their services well to offer high quality and low cost. Optimized planning can benefit providers, customers, and municipalities. The planning process for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Lucas Mertens , Lena-Antonia Wolbeck , David Rößler , Lin Xie , Natalia Kliewer

Freight train services in a railway network system are generally divided into two categories: one is the unscheduled train, whose operating frequency fluctuates with origin-destination (OD) demands; the other is the scheduled train, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Boliang Lin

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

Railroad transportation plays a vital role in the future of sustainable mobility. Besides building new infrastructure, capacity can be improved by modern train control systems, e.g., based on moving blocks. At the same time, there is only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Stefan Engels , Robert Wille

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

Risk Limiting Dispatch (RLD) was proposed recently as a mechanism that utilizes information and market recourse to reduce reserve capacity requirements, emissions and achieve other system operator objectives. It induces a set of simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Junjie Qin , Han-I Su , Ram Rajagopal

This paper addresses the Service Network Design (SND) problem for a logistics service provider (LSP) operating in a multimodal freight transport network, considering uncertain travel times and limited truck fleet availability. A two-stage…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Javier Durán-Micco , Bilge Atasoy

Public transportation systems are experiencing an increase in commuter traffic. This increase underscores the need for resilience strategies to manage unexpected service disruptions, ensuring rapid and effective responses that minimize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Sara Jaber , Mostafa Ameli , S. M. Hassan Mahdavi , Neila Bhouri

Hyperconnected relay transportation enables using a relay system of short-haul drivers to deliver long-haul shipments collectively, which helps address root causes of trucker shortage issues by transforming working conditions with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Jingze Li , Xiaoyue Liu , Mathieu Dahan , Benoit Montreuil

The last few years have seen the massive deployment of electric buses in many existing transit networks. However, the planning and operation of an electric bus system differ from that of a bus system with conventional vehicles, and some key…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-04 Rémi Lacombe , Nikolce Murgovski , Sébastien Gros , Balázs Kulcsár

Railway scheduling is a problem that exhibits both non-trivial discrete and continuous behavior. In this paper, we simulate train networks at a low level, where a number of timing and ordering constraints can appear. We model this problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Tomáš Kolárik , Stefan Ratschan

Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) bring competition to traditional transit services but redesigning multimodal transit network can utilize SAVs as feeders to enhance service efficiency and coverage. This paper presents an optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Max T. M. Ng , Hani S. Mahmassani , Draco Tong , Omer Verbas , Taner Cokyasar

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

Truck platooning is a promising technology that enables trucks to travel in formations with small inter-vehicle distances for improved aerodynamics and fuel economy. The real-world transportation system includes a vast number of trucks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Ting Bai , Alexander Johansson , Karl Henrik Johansson , Jonas Mårtensson

In light of the need for design and analysis of intermodal transportation systems, we propose an algorithmic framework to determine the system optimum of an intermodal transportation system. To this end, we model an intermodal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Benedikt Lienkamp , Maximilian Schiffer

The technology-enabled ride-pooling (RP) is designed as an on-demand feeder service to connect remote areas to transit terminals (or activity centers). We propose the so-called ``hold-dispatch'' operation strategy, which imposes a target…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-22 Wenbo Fan , Weihua Gu , Meng Xu

This study presents optimization problems to jointly determine long-term network design, mid-term fleet sizing strategy, and short-term routing and ridesharing matching in shared autonomous vehicle (SAV) systems with pre-booked and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Riki Kawase

The decarbonisation of heavy-duty railway networks requires maximising the capacity of existing electrical infrastructure. Integrating heavy freight alongside fast passenger services exposes the hard physical limits of conventional…

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