The price and service time are two critical aspects that affect the benefits for customers and
rail operators. In the rail freight transportation system, the profit maximization object is …

Multiple North American freight railroads have adopted concepts of Precision Scheduled
Railroading (PSR) that attempt to reduce costs by maximizing train length and minimizing …

Sažetak The choice of a particular mode of transport as an alternative to another one is
subjective and usually based on an individual passenger's approach to the evaluation of …

One of the most important railway transportation problems is the railroad blocking problem
(RBP). To our knowledge, no works consider the costs and risks of hazmat transportation in …

As the core of the rail freight flow organization process, train formation problem (TFP) has
attracted much attention. In Chinese practice, car flow routing, TFP, and train routing are …

This dissertation presents research to understand and quantify the relationships governing
railway classification yard capacity and performance, and their connection to the capacity …

An optimal freight train plan requires practitioners to find a balance between mainline and
yard efficiencies by adjusting the complexity of the yard operation and evaluating trade-offs …

In this paper, mixed-integer programming for the railway network design problem with a new
objective function is proposed. The model considers development projects (new line …

Railcars are known as the heart of the freight rail transportation industry. Hence, any
improvements in their operations can lead to sharp reductions in various operating costs …

Abstract The fixed-charge Capacitated Multi-commodity Network Design (CMND) is a well-
known problem of both practical and theoretical significance. Network design models …