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Bart Kersbergen
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In this paper we present a railway traffic model and a model predictive controller for online railway traffic management of railway networks with a periodic timetable. The main aim of the controller is to recover from delays in an optimal way by changing the departure of trains,
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Every day small delays occur in almost all railway networks. Such small delays are often called “disturbances” in literature. In order to deal with disturbances dispatchers reschedule and reroute trains, or break connections. We call this the railway management problem. In this p
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In this paper we introduce two distributed model predictive control (DMPC) approaches that significantly improve the quality of the solutions found compared to the DMPC approaches that were introduced by Kersbergen et al. [2014b] for the rescheduling of railway traffic, while the c
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