Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6897640 | European Journal of Operational Research | 2014 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
In order to improve the robustness of a railway system in station areas, this paper introduces an iterative approach to successively optimize the train routing through station areas and to enhance this solution by applying some changes to the timetable in a tabu search environment. We present our vision on robustness and describe how this vision can be used in practice. By introducing the spread of the trains in the objective function for the route choice and timetabling module, we improve the robustness of a railway system. Using a discrete event simulation model, the performance of our algorithms is evaluated based on a case study for the Brussels' area. The computational results indicate an average improvement in robustness of 6.2% together with a decrease in delay propagation of about 25%. Furthermore, the effect of some measures like changing the train offer to further increase the robustness is evaluated and compared.
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Authors
Thijs Dewilde, Peter Sels, Dirk Cattrysse, Pieter Vansteenwegen,