Review of energy-efficient train control and timetabling

GM Scheepmaker, RMP Goverde, LG Kroon - European Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The energy consumption of trains is highly efficient due to the low friction between steel
wheels and rails, although the efficiency is also influenced largely by the driving strategy …

Research and development of automatic train operation for railway transportation systems: A survey

J Yin, T Tang, L Yang, J Xun, Y Huang, Z Gao - … Research Part C: Emerging …, 2017 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of communication, control and computer technologies in the last
several decades, automatic train operation (ATO), for which the driver no longer has to …

An energy-efficient train operation approach by integrating the metro timetabling and eco-driving

S Su, X Wang, Y Cao, J Yin - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Energy-efficient train operation is regarded as an effective way to reduce the operational
cost and carbon emissions in metro systems. Reduction of the traction energy and …

Recuperation of regenerative braking energy in electric rail transit systems

M Khodaparastan, AA Mohamed… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electric rail transit systems are the large consumers of energy. In trains with regenerative
braking capability, a fraction of the energy used to power a train is regenerated during …

A survey on energy-efficient train operation for urban rail transit

X Yang, X Li, B Ning, T Tang - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to rising energy prices and environmental concerns, the energy efficiency of urban rail
transit has attracted much attention from both researchers and practitioners in recent years …

Dynamic passenger demand oriented metro train scheduling with energy-efficiency and waiting time minimization: Mixed-integer linear programming approaches

J Yin, L Yang, T Tang, Z Gao, B Ran - Transportation Research Part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the daily operation of metro systems, the train scheduling problem aims to find a set of
space-time paths for multiple trains that determine their departure and arrival times at metro …

The key principles of optimal train control—Part 1: Formulation of the model, strategies of optimal type, evolutionary lines, location of optimal switching points

A Albrecht, P Howlett, P Pudney, X Vu… - … Research Part B …, 2016 - Elsevier
We discuss the problem of finding an energy-efficient driving strategy for a train journey on
an undulating track with steep grades subject to a maximum prescribed journey time. We …

Energy-efficient metro train rescheduling with uncertain time-variant passenger demands: An approximate dynamic programming approach

J Yin, T Tang, L Yang, Z Gao, B Ran - Transportation Research Part B …, 2016 - Elsevier
In a heavily congested metro line, unexpected disturbances often occur to cause the delay of
the traveling passengers, infeasibility of the current timetable and reduction of the …

Passenger demand oriented train scheduling and rolling stock circulation planning for an urban rail transit line

Y Wang, A D'Ariano, J Yin, L Meng, T Tang… - … Research Part B …, 2018 - Elsevier
We study the integration of train scheduling and rolling stock circulation planning under time-
varying passenger demand for an urban rail transit line, where the practical train operation …

An integrated energy-efficient train operation approach based on the space-time-speed network methodology

X Wang, T Tang, S Su, J Yin, Z Gao, N Lv - Transportation Research Part E …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reduction on the traction energy and increasing of the reused regenerative energy are two
main ways for saving energy in metro systems, which are related to the driving strategy as …