Author(s)

S. M. Z. Iqbal, H. Grahn & J. T. Krasemann

Abstract

Railway traffic disturbances occur and train dispatchers make re-scheduling decisions in order to reduce the delays. In order to support the dispatchers, good re-scheduling strategies are required that could reduce the delays. We propose and evaluate re-scheduling strategies based on: (i) earliest start time, (ii) earliest track release time, (iii) smallest buffer time, and (iv) shortest section runtime. A comparative evaluation is done for a busy part of the Swedish railway network. Our results indicate that strategies based on earliest start time and earliest track release time have the best average performance. Keywords: railway traffic, disturbance management, optimization.

Keywords

railway traffic, disturbance management, optimization