Assessment of flexible timetables in real-time traffic management of a railway bottleneck

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 232-245

  D'Ariano, Andrea ^a   Pacciarelli, Dario ^b   Pranzo, Marco ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conflict resolution; Flexible timetable; Real time train scheduling

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PUBLIC POLICY; RAILROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

REAL-TIME TRAIN SCHEDULING; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 38849099559     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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