Railway capacity is seemingly easy but truly complex concept due to its interaction with all
the pillars of railways such as infrastructure, rolling stock, signaling and operation planning …

Many infrastructure managers have the goal to increase the capacity of their railway
infrastructure due to an increasing demand. While methods for performance calculations of …

Railway capacity is a vague concept, related to the possibility to run a maximal transport
performance given a set of available resources. While most approaches focus only on …

Railway operations are organized according to a complex interplay of resources and
according to a rigid time separation of train runs over infrastructure elements. The system …

Changing the topology of a railway network can greatly affect its capacity. Railway networks
however can be altered in a multitude of different ways. As each way has significant …

Railway capacity is a scarce and expensive resource that has to be utilised in the best way
possible. Many methods exist for medium-and short-term planning and analysis of railway …

In this study, a multi-commodity network flow model is proposed to optimize the railroad
capacity under temporary line blockage. The proposed model enables the assessment of …

Railway capacity determination and expansion are very important topics. In prior research,
the competition between different entities such as train services and train types, on different …

The integrated optimization of the wagon flow routing and train formation plan is provided.
The problem is formulated as a mathematical programming model. The objective function …

While designing the train timetabling and skip-stopping plan in a space–time network
shared by multi-type trains, a prevailing approach is to predesignate a specific type for each …