Overview
- Focuses on state-of-the-art mathematical approaches to railway problems
- Covers both freight and passenger railway issues
- Fully global approach suitable for railways worldwide
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 268)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book promotes the use of mathematical optimization and operations research methods in rail transportation. The editors assembled thirteen contributions from leading scholars to present a unified voice, standardize terminology, and assess the state-of-the-art.
There are three main clusters of articles, corresponding to the classical stages of the planning process: strategic, tactical, and operational. These three clusters are further subdivided into five parts which correspond to the main phases of the railway network planning process: network assessment, capacity planning, timetabling, resource planning, and operational planning. Individual chapters cover:
Simulation
Capacity Assessment
Network Design
Train Routing
Robust Timetabling
Event Scheduling
Track Allocation
Blocking
Shunting
Rolling Stock
Crew Scheduling
Dispatching
Delay Propagation
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ralf Borndörfer is a Professor of Discrete Mathematics at the FU Berlin, and Head of the Optimization Department at Zuse Institute, Berlin. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics, as well as his Habilitation in Mathematics, Mathematical Optimization and Public Transportation at the Technical University of Berlin.
Torsten Klug is a Research Assistant in Optimization at the Zuse Institute, Berlin. He earned his Diploma in Mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin.
Leonardo Lamorgese is a Researcher in Applied Mathematics in the Optimization Group at SINTEF ICT, Oslo, Norway. He earned his M.Sc. in Decision Science and Operations Research at the University of Rome, La Sapienza. His research interests include Transportation, Logistics, and Health Care and Sports Scheduling.
Carlo Mannino is a Senior Scientist at SINTEF ICT in Oslo, Norway and Professor of Operations Research at the University of Oslo. He earned his Ph.D. in Operations Research at the University of Rome, La Sapienza and was awarded the 2014 INFORMS Best Paper Award, Telecommunications Section, as well as the 2009 EURO Excellence in Practice Award and 2014 AIRO best application award for his work in railroad optimization.
Markus Reuther is an expert in the development of integrated optimization software with many years of experience in tour planning and railroad planning at the Zuse Institute, Berlin. He has successfully graduated and promoted on novel algorithmic methods for solving complex application problems specializing in railway optimization at the Technical University of Berlin.
Thomas Schlechte is a shareholder of LBW Optimization GmbH and was post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Zuse Institute, Berlin. He earned his Ph.D.  on Railway Track Allocation Models and Algorithms at the Technical University of Berlin. He is a Board Member of the International Association of Railway Operations Research (IAROR).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Optimization in the Railway Industry
Editors: Ralf Borndörfer, Torsten Klug, Leonardo Lamorgese, Carlo Mannino, Markus Reuther, Thomas Schlechte
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72153-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72152-1Published: 09 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10160-2Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72153-8Published: 01 March 2018
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 321
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 76 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Operations Research, Management Science, Transportation