Efficient Scheduling of Traffic on a Railway Line

J. Medanic and M.J. Dorfman
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J. Medanic: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.J. Dorfman: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2002, vol. 115, issue 3, No 8, 587-602

Abstract: Abstract Scheduling trains on a single railway line is an important issue in it own right and a building block for scheduling trains in railway networks. A local, state-dependent, travel-advance strategy combined with a discrete-event model of a railway line represents a more efficient way of approaching the scheduling problem than the nonlinear programming approach used in the past. The new approach produces suboptimal time-efficient and energy-efficient schedules and can be used for fast rescheduling in case of significant perturbation in the schedule.

Keywords: Discrete-event dynamic systems; scheduling; algorithms; train control; optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1021255214371

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