Multi-objective project portfolio optimization: Application in railway infrastructure networks

Investment projects in railway infrastructure networks are needed to maintain a high condition of the network, maximize the capacity of the network, and to keep the risk low. Railway organizations are aiming to achieve these goals, but also want to minimize the costs of the investments. The desires of stakeholders in railway networks such as the...

Abstraction of Hybrid Systems: With an application in railway management

Disturbances are an important factor in the performance of complex large scale systems. These complex large scale systems can be modeled by a broad class of hybrid dynamical systems. The current practice of controlling such processes is one way, from the scheduling level to the control level. The performance of these complex systems can be...

The Japanisation of the Dutch railways