Dynamic railway timetable rescheduling for multiple connected disruptions

Unexpected disruptions occur in the railways on a daily basis, which are typically handled manually by experienced traffic controllers with the support of predefined contingency plans. When several disruptions occur simultaneously, it is rather hard for traffic controllers to make rescheduling decisions, because (1) the predefined contingency...

A Matheuristic for the Integrated Disruption Management of Traffic, Passengers and Stations in Urban Railway Lines

In big cities, the metro lines usually face great pressure caused by huge passengers demand, especially during peak hours. When disruptions occur, passengers accumulate quickly at stations. It is of great importance for dispatchers to take passenger flow control into consideration for the traffic management to ensure passengers' safety and to...

Dynamic and robust timetable rescheduling for uncertain railway disruptions

Unexpected disruptions occur frequently in the railways, during which many train services cannot run as scheduled. This paper deals with timetable rescheduling during such disruptions, particularly in the case where all tracks between two stations are blocked for hours. In practice, a disruption may become shorter or longer than predicted. To...

Integrated timetable rescheduling and passenger reassignment during railway disruptions

During railway disruptions, most passengers may not be able to find preferred alternative train services due to the current way of handling disruptions that does not take passenger responses into account. To offer better alternatives to passengers, this paper proposes a novel passenger-oriented timetable rescheduling model, which integrates...

Dynamic Passenger Assignment for Major Railway Disruptions Considering Information Interventions

Passenger assignment models for major disruptions that require trains to be<br/>cancelled/short-turned in railway systems are rarely considered in literature, although these models could make a significant contribution to passenger-oriented disruption timetable design/rescheduling. This paper proposes a dynamic passenger assignment model, where...