Handbook of Optimization in the Railway Industry [Hardcover]

This book promotes the use of mathematical optimization and operations research methods in rail transportation.? The editors assembled thirteen contributions from leading scholars to present a unified voice, standardize terminology, and assess the state-of-the-art.

There are three main clusters of articles, corresponding to the classical stages of the planning process: strategic, tactical, and operational.? These three clusters are further subdivided into five parts which correspond to the main phases of the railway network planning process: network assessment, capacity planning, timetabling, resource planning, and operational planning.? Individual chapters cover:

Simulation

Capacity Assessment

Network Design

Train Routing

Robust Timetabling

Event Scheduling

Track Allocation

Blocking

Shunting

Rolling Stock

Crew Scheduling

Dispatching

Delay Propagation

Chapter1: Simulation of Rail Operations.- Chapter2: Capacity Assessment in Railway Networks.- Chapter3: Aggregation methods for railway network design based on lifted Benders Cuts.- Chapter4: Freight Train Routing.- Chapter5: Robust Train Timetabling.- Chapter6: Modern Challenges in Timetabling.- Chapter7: Railway Track Allocation.- Chapter8: Use of Optimization Tools for Routing in Rail Freight Transport.- Chapter9: Optimization of Railway Freight Shunting.- Chapter10: Optimization of Rolling Stock Rotations.- Chapter11: Railway Crew Management.- Chapter12: Train Dispatching.- Chapter13: Delay Propagation and Delay Management in Transportation Networks.

Ralf Bornd?rfer?is a Professor of Discrete Mathematics at the FU Berlin, and Head of the Optimization Department at lÃ