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Ghaemi, N. (author), Cats, O. (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)In case of railway disruptions, traffic controllers are responsible for dealing with disrupted traffic and reduce the negative impact for the rest of the network. In case of a complete blockage when no train can use an entire track, a common practice is to short-turn trains. Trains approaching the blockage cannot proceed according to their...journal article 2018
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Ghaemi, N. (author), Zilko, A.A. (author), Yan, F. (author), Cats, O. (author), Kurowicka, D. (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)Disruptions such as rolling stock breakdown, signal failures, and accidents are recurrent events during daily railway operation. Such events disrupt the deployment of resources and cause delay to passengers. Obtaining a reliable disruption length estimation can potentially reduce the negative impact caused by the disruption. Different factors...journal article 2018
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Ghaemi, N. (author), Cats, O. (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)Currently railway traffic controllers use predefined solutions (contingency plans) to deal with a disruption. These plans are manually designed by expert traffic controllers and are specific to a certain location and timetable. With a slight change in the timetable or infrastructure, these plans might not be feasible and have to be updated....journal article 2017