Optimizing trains movement on a railway network

Omega

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 619-633

  Yang, Lixing ^a   Li, Keping ^a   Gao, Ziyou ^a   Li, Xiang ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coasting control; Energy consumption; Genetic algorithm; Railway network

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; RAILROADS; TRAVEL TIME;

COASTING CONTROL; CONTROL METHODS; ENERGY-CONSUMPTION; OPERATION PROBLEM; OPTIMISATIONS; RAILWAY NETWORK; ROUTINGS; TRAIN MOVEMENT; TRAIN OPERATIONS; TRAVEL-TIME;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 84855433912     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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