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Optimizing the Simplon Railway Corridor

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  • This paper presents a case study on a railway timetable optimization for the very dense Simplon corridor, a major railway connection in the Alps between Switzerland and Italy. Starting from a detailed microscopic network as it is used in railway simulation, the data is transformed by an automatic procedure to a less detailed macroscopic network, that is sufficient for the purpose of capacity planning and amenable to state-of-the-art integer programming optimization methods. In this way, the macroscopic railway network is saturated with trains. Finally, the corresponding timetable is re-transformed to the microscopic level in such a way that it can be operated without any conflicts among the slots. Using this integer programming based micro-macro aggregation-disaggregation approach, it becomes for the first time possible to generate a profit maximal and conflict free timetable for the complete Simplon corridor over an entire day by a simultaneous optimization of all trains requests. This also allows to to undertake a sensitivity analysis of various problem parameters.

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Author:Ralf BorndörferORCiD, Berkan Erol, Thomas Graffagnino, Thomas Schlechte, Elmar Swarat
Document Type:ZIB-Report
Tag:Fallstudie; Netzwerkaggregation; Simplon Korridor; Trassenallokation
Simplon corridor; case study; network aggregation; railway track allocation
MSC-Classification:90-XX OPERATIONS RESEARCH, MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING / 90Bxx Operations research and management science / 90B06 Transportation, logistics
90-XX OPERATIONS RESEARCH, MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING / 90Bxx Operations research and management science / 90B20 Traffic problems
90-XX OPERATIONS RESEARCH, MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING / 90Cxx Mathematical programming [See also 49Mxx, 65Kxx] / 90C11 Mixed integer programming
90-XX OPERATIONS RESEARCH, MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING / 90Cxx Mathematical programming [See also 49Mxx, 65Kxx] / 90C27 Combinatorial optimization
91-XX GAME THEORY, ECONOMICS, SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES / 91Bxx Mathematical economics (For econometrics, see 62P20) / 91B74 Models of real-world systems
Creating Corporation:Zuse Institut Berlin
Date of first Publication:2010/11/01
Series (Serial Number):ZIB-Report (10-24)
ISSN:1438-0064
ZIB-Reportnumber:10-24
Published in:A rev. vers. appeared in: Annals of Operations Research, Dec. 2012
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-012-1260-9
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