Railway track maintenance and renewal are vital for railway safety, train punctuality, and
travel comfort. Therefore, having cost-effective maintenance is critical in managing railway …

This article gives an overview of the literature on asset management for multi-unit systems
with an emphasis on two multi-asset categories: fleet (a system of homogeneous assets) …

Railway big data technologies are transforming the existing track inspection and
maintenance policy deployed for railroads in North America. This paper develops a data …

Railway infrastructure maintenance consumes very large budgets, is complicated to
organize and has numerous challenging planning problems. Specifically, the coordination …

Train scheduling and maintenance planning compete for the resources in a railway network.
A commonly used way is dealing with maintenance planning first and then train scheduling …

Inspection and maintenance activities are essential to preserving safety and cost-
effectiveness in railways. However, the stochastic nature of railway defect occurrence is …

This paper addresses the problem of improving the integration between passenger
timetabling and track maintenance scheduling. We propose a microscopic optimization …

This work addresses a tactical railway traffic scheduling problem focused on the optimization
of train sequencing and routing decisions and timing decisions related to short-term …

An optimization-based maintenance scheduling framework is an essential tool to plan the
necessary investment to maintain the required performance of a railway line. In the present …

We address the problem of simultaneously scheduling trains and planning preventive
maintenance time slots (PMTSs) on a general railway network. Based on network …