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 Borndörfer is a Professor of Discrete Mathematics at the FU Berlin, and Head of the Optimization Department at Zuse Institute, Berlin. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics, as well as his Habilitation in Mathematics, Mathematical Optimization and Public Transportation at the Technical University of Berlin.
Torsten Klug is a Research Assistant in Optimization at the Zuse Institute, Berlin. He earned his Diploma in Mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin.
