Efficiently coordinating the movement of trains on a railway network is a central part of the
planning process for a railway company. This paper reviews models and methods that have …

Publisher Summary Railway transportation can be split into passenger transportation and
cargo transportation. This chapter discusses the European situation, where the major part of …

The aim of this paper is to present a survey of recent optimization models for the most
commonly studied rail transportation problems. For each group of problems, we propose a …

We present a novel optimization approach for the timetabling problem of a railway company,
ie, scheduling of a set of trains to obtain a profit maximizing timetable, while not violating …

Many problems arising in traffic planning can be modelled and solved using discrete
optimization. We will focus on recent developments which were applied to large scale real …

In this paper we give an overview of state‐of‐the‐art Operations Research models and
techniques used in passenger railway transportation. For each planning phase (strategic …

Trains' movements on a railway network are regulated by official timetables. Deviations and
delays occur quite often in practice, demanding fast rescheduling and rerouting decisions in …

This paper provides an overview of railway timetable design in practice and the
combinatorial optimization models that have been proposed for this application, putting …

We consider the problem of train planning or scheduling for large, busy, complex train
stations, which are common in Europe and elsewhere, though not in North America. We …

In this paper, we describe the problem of routing trains through a railway station. This routing
problem is a subproblem of the automatic generation of timetables for the Dutch railway …