Print Email Facebook Twitter Optimal rerouting of short-turning trains during track obstructions Title Optimal rerouting of short-turning trains during track obstructions Author Ghaemi, N. Goverde, R.M.P. Cats, O. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Transport & Planning Date 2015-07-19 Abstract Railway trafic controllers have only limited decision support to deal with disruptions. The aim of this research is to provide an algorithm to compute conflict-free routes for trains that cannot continue their planned operation due to a track obstruction. In case of complete blockage, trains need to short-turn at the closest possible station to the disturbed area and provide services in the opposite direction. In such cases, a new timetable is needed to provide a plan during disruption. In this paper a rescheduling and rerouting model is used to find feasible route plans with a focus on short-turnings. The model is applied on a corridor of the Dutch railway network. The results show that such algorithm can provide real-time solutions for trafic controllers during disruption. In addition, it is shown that rerouting the short-turned trains can decrease the delay propagation to the neighboring stations significantly. Subject railway disruptionreschedulingoptimization To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0c2e04b6-08c1-43e7-8051-18c5344c124f Source CASPT 2015: 13th International Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 19-23 July 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s) Files PDF 325113.pdf 522.28 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0c2e04b6-08c1-43e7-8051-18c5344c124f/datastream/OBJ/view