A review of online dynamic models and algorithms for railway traffic management

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1274-1284

  Corman, Francesco ^a,b   Meng, Lingyun ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Delay propagation; dynamic systems; railway traffic management; train rescheduling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; RAILROADS; SCHEDULING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTATION;

DELAY PROPAGATION; MODELS AND ALGORITHMS; OFFLINE; RAILWAY TIMETABLES; RAILWAY TRAFFIC; RAILWAY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; RESCHEDULING PROBLEM; TRAIN RESCHEDULING;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 85027957658     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2014.2358392     Document Type: Article

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