Shunting of trains in succeeding yards

F Jaehn, S Michaelis - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
We consider a problem arising in international rail freight transport. At a shunting yard,
inbound trains are taken apart by decoupling freight cars, which are then sent through a …

Conflict-free railway track assignment at depots

B Gilg, T Klug, R Martienssen, J Paat… - Journal of rail transport …, 2018 - Elsevier
Managing rolling stock with no passengers aboard is a critical component of railway
operations. One aspect of managing rolling stock is to park the rolling stock on a given set of …

[HTML][HTML] A study on sorting strategies in marshaling yards with a limited number of tracks and track capacity

M Zien, T Kirschstein, C Bierwirth - Journal of Rail Transport Planning & …, 2025 - Elsevier
In marshaling yards, freight wagons are sorted from inbound trains to outbound trains for
further transport. To organize an efficient shunting process, sorting strategies are proposed …

[HTML][HTML] A rolling horizon approach for shunting operations–An emission oriented simulation study

M Zien, T Kirschstein - Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain, 2023 - Elsevier
Marshalling yards are nodes in rail networks to sort railcars from incoming trains to outgoing
trains. To built outgoing trains in the correct sequence, railcars are shunted by shunting …

Evaluating Operational Effects of Innovations in Rail Freight Service Networks using Machine Learning

T Pollehn - 2024 - tud.qucosa.de
Abstract (DE) Der Trend zu kleinteiligeren und kapitalintensiveren Transportgütern führt in
Kombination mit der in Europa angestrebten Reduktion von Treibhausgasemissionen im …

[HTML][HTML] 基于突破性局部搜索的集装箱班列同步转运作业调度优化

何迅, 郭鹏, 栾玉麟 - 计算机系统应用, 2019 - csa.org.cn
铁路集装箱中心站作为内陆腹地运输网络中的重要节点. 转运作为主要的站内作业活动,
对其开展调度研究, 能够有效缩短不同运输方式之间的转运周期, 从而保证铁路集装箱多式联运 …

The train-to-yard assignment problem

A Otto, E Pesch - OR Spectrum, 2019 - Springer
The train-to-yard assignment problem (TYAP) pertains to freight consolidation in a large rail
transshipment yard—also called a multiple yard—that consists of two sub-yards. Inbound …

Renewable energy microgrid for iron-ore rail freight shunting yards

B Dekeda - 2021 - etd.cput.ac.za
Global warming and climate change has purposely encouraged the use of environmentally
friendly energy so as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated from the use of fossil …

Routing of shunt trains at logistics hubs of NS using constraint programming

NJ Wattel - 2021 - essay.utwente.nl
This research explored the usage of constraint programming to find routes and times for
shunt trains at logistics hubs of NS. NS currently uses HIP (Hybrid Integral Planning Method) …

[PDF][PDF] Avaliação de capacidade de processamento em pátios ferroviários planos de classificação através de modelo de otimização

L de Souza Pessôa - 2021 - maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br
Renata Ferreira de Sá Avaliação de capacidade de processamento em pátios ferroviários
planos de classificação através de Page 1 Renata Ferreira de Sá Avaliação de capacidade …