Abstract: Railway transportation can be split into passenger transportation and cargo transportation. This chapter discusses the European situation, where the major part of railway transportation consists of passenger transportation without addressing important problems in cargo transportation—such as car blocking, train makeup, train routing, and empty car distribution. The chapter describes several mathematical models and optimization techniques that have been developed for effectively supporting traditional planning processes in passenger railway transportation. A lot of research has been carried out in this area, both of a practical and theoretical nature. The results of this research are starting to be applied in practice. Real-time control is at the other side of the planning spectrum. The current trend in the railway industry is a shift from "planning in detail" to "effective real-time control." Disturbances and disruptions in the railway operations are inevitable. Therefore, large parts of the operational plans are never carried out.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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