Rescheduling models for railway traffic management in large-scale networks
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2013
Subject Area
operations - scheduling, mode - rail, place - europe
Keywords
Alternative graph, Delay propagation, Macroscopic modeling, Railway traffic management, Timed event graph
Abstract
In the last decades of railway operations research, microscopic models have been intensively studied to support traffic operators in managing their dispatching areas. However, those models result in long computation times for large and highly utilized networks. The problem of controlling country-wide traffic is still open since the coordination of local areas is hard to tackle in short time and there are multiple interdependencies between trains across the whole network. This work is dedicated to the development of new macroscopic models that are able to incorporate traffic management decisions. Objective of this paper is to investigate how different levels of detail and number of operational constraints may affect the applicability of models for network-wide rescheduling in terms of quality of solutions and computation time. We present four different macroscopic models and test them on the Dutch national timetable. The macroscopic models are compared with a state-of-theart microscopic model. Trade-off between computation time and solution quality is discussed on various disturbed traffic conditions.
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Recommended Citation
Kecman, P., Corman, F., D'Ariano, A., & Goverde, R.M.P. (2013). Rescheduling models for railway traffic management in large-scale networks. Public Transport, Vol. 5, pp. 95-123.
