Digitization in Rail Transport

Rail Transport and Energy Consumption

This paper attempts to portray the present unstable situation of handling passengers and freight inside Iran as well as to represent a clear view of the rail transport features that have given this mode of transport a special place among the transport system. In this paper the rate of fuel consumption as a main pivotal item has been evaluated as well as the amount and cost of fuel economized th...

Discrete optimization in public rail transport

Single-Car Routing in Rail Freight Transport

Cars in rail freight service follow prescribed routes from their origin via intermediate shunting yards to their destination. The goal in designing such routes is to reduce the number of trains and their travel distances. Various real-world hard constraints make the problem difficult to formulate and also to solve. We present integer programming formulations for this car routing problem arising...

A Framework for Modeling Rail Transport Vulnerability

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Service Quality and Rail Transport in Pakistan: A Passenger Perspective

Customer satisfaction and retention is one of the key determinants to measure the quality of products or services and hence the organizational performance. Due to the growing importance of quality in our life, customers desire to enjoy a relatively better quality of products or availing superior quality services has been increased. Pakistan is the sixth highly populated country of the world and...