An overview of recovery models and algorithms for real-time railway rescheduling

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 15-37

  Cacchiani, Valentina ^a   Huisman, Dennis ^b   Kidd, Martin ^a   Kroon, Leo ^b   Toth, Paolo ^a   Veelenturf, Lucas ^b   Wagenaar, Joris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disturbances and disruptions; Optimization models and algorithms; Railway rescheduling; Real time; Review paper

Indexed keywords

OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; RAILROADS; TRANSPORTATION;

DISTURBANCES AND DISRUPTIONS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; RAILWAY RE-SCHEDULING; REAL TIME; REVIEW PAPERS;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; REAL TIME;

EID: 84896786219     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2014.01.009     Document Type: Review

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