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 train timetabling problem aims at determining a periodic timetable for a set of trains that
does not violate track capacities and satisfies some operational constraints. In particular, we …

In this paper we survey the main studies dealing with the train timetabling problem in its
nominal and robust versions. Roughly speaking, the nominal version of the problem …

In this paper, we review the main concepts and methods to perform capacity analyses, and
we present an automated tool that is able to perform several capacity analyses. Capacity is …

Rescheduling in railway networks is a challenging problem in both practice and theory. It
requires good quality solutions in reasonable computation time to resolve unexpected …

Train stop plans and timetables play key roles in railway operation. Previous research has
demonstrated that their integration can significantly improve the quality of a train timetable …

This paper focuses on the development of metaheuristic algorithms for the real-time traffic
management problem of scheduling and routing trains in complex and busy railway …

As urban rail networks in big cities tend to expand, the synchronization of trains has become
a key issue for improving the service quality of passengers because most urban rail transit …

This paper describes an algorithm for scheduling bidirectional railway lines (both single-and
multi-track) using a reinforcement learning (RL) approach. The goal is to define the track …