The performance of railway operations depends highly on the quality of the railway timetable. In particular for dense railway networks it can be challenging to obtain a stable robust conflict-free and energy-efficient timetable with acceptable infrastructure occupation and short journey times. This paper presents a performance-based railway timetabling framework integrating timetable construction and evaluation on three levels: microscopic, macroscopic, and a corridor fine-tuning level, where each performance indicator is optimized or evaluated at the appropriate level. A modular implementation of the three-level framework is presented and demonstrated on a case study on the Dutch railway network illustrating the feasibility of this approach to achieve the highest timetabling design level.
A three-level framework for performance-based railway timetabling / Goverde, Rob M.P; Bešinović, Nikola; Binder, Anne; Cacchiani, Valentina; Quaglietta, Egidio; Roberti, Roberto; Toth, Paolo. - In: TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH. PART C, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES. - ISSN 0968-090X. - STAMPA. - 67:(2016), pp. 62-83. [10.1016/j.trc.2016.02.004]
A three-level framework for performance-based railway timetabling
CACCHIANI, VALENTINA;ROBERTI, ROBERTO;TOTH, PAOLO
2016
Abstract
The performance of railway operations depends highly on the quality of the railway timetable. In particular for dense railway networks it can be challenging to obtain a stable robust conflict-free and energy-efficient timetable with acceptable infrastructure occupation and short journey times. This paper presents a performance-based railway timetabling framework integrating timetable construction and evaluation on three levels: microscopic, macroscopic, and a corridor fine-tuning level, where each performance indicator is optimized or evaluated at the appropriate level. A modular implementation of the three-level framework is presented and demonstrated on a case study on the Dutch railway network illustrating the feasibility of this approach to achieve the highest timetabling design level.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.