Handbook of Optimization in the Railway Industry

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• Other Authors: Borndörfer, Ralf (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Klug, Torsten (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lamorgese, Leonardo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mannino, Carlo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Reuther, Markus (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Schlechte, Thomas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 268
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; Management science.; Transportation.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Research, Management Science.

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 a...

Table of Contents:

• 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.