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Today the railway timetabling process and the track allocation
is one of the most challenging problems to solve by a railway infrastructure provider.
Especially due to the deregulation of the transport market in the recent years several
suppliers of railway traffic have entered the market. This leads to an increase of slot requests
and then it is natural that conflicts occur among them.
Furthermore, railway infrastructure networks consist of very expensive assets, even more
they are rigid due to the long-term upgrade process.
In order to make best use of these valuable infrastructure and to ensure economic operation,
efficient planning of the railway operation is indispensable.
Mathematical optimization models and algorithmic methodology can help
to automatize and tackle these challenges.
Our contribution in this paper is to present a renewed planning process
due to the liberalization in Europe and a general framework to
support the integration of simulation and optimization for
railway capacity allocation.