This guide explains the role of railway timetables relative to all other railway scheduling
activities, and then presents four fundamental timetable formulations suitable for …

This paper addresses the problem of train conflict detection and resolution, which is dealt
every day by traffic controllers to adapt the timetable to delays and other unpredictable …

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 …

This paper addresses the scheduled service network design problem for freight rail
transportation. The proposed model integrates service selection and scheduling, car …

This study investigates the potential of a shared freight and passenger high-speed railway
system in which different transportation resources are allowed to be shared under different …

This work focuses on a particular node of the intermodal chain of transportation, ie the
maritime port area that represents the link between rail and sea transportation modes. Since …

A standard practice to improve punctuality of railway services is the addition of time reserves
in the timetable to recover perturbations occurring in operations. However, time reserves …

Freight transportation by railroads is an integral part of the US economy. Identifying critical
rail infrastructures can help stakeholders prioritize protection initiatives or add necessary …

In the US, freight railways are one of the major means to transport goods from ports to inland
destinations. According to the Association of American Railroad's study, rail companies …

This article presents a mixed-integer linear-programming formulation for integrating short-
term maintenance planning in a network-wide railway rolling stock circulation problem. This …