Mechanical Civilization Induced Earth Pollution Problem, and Aero-Train

The train marshalling problem

The problem considered in this paper arose in connection with the rearrangement of railroad cars in China. In terms of sequences the problem reads as follows: contains all the elements of S p(1) , then all elements of S p(2) , : : :, etc., and nally all elements of S p(t). The aim of this paper is to show that the decision problem: \Given numbers n; k and a partition S of f1; 2; :::; ng, is K (...

Passenger Centric Train Timetabling Problem

The aim of this paper is to analyze and to improve the current planning process of the passenger railway service in light of the recent railway market changes. In order to do so, we introduce the Passenger Centric Train Timetabling Problem. The originality of our approach is that we account for the passenger satisfaction in the design of the timetable. We consider both types of timetable(s): cy...

Modeling and Solving the Train Timetabling Problem

Air Pollution Monitoring Using Earth Observation & GIS

Air pollution has received considerable attention by local and global communities (Wald et al, 1999). Many major cities have established air quality monitoring stations but these stations tend to be scarcely distributed and do not provide sufficient tools for mapping atmospheric pollution since air quality is highly variable (Wald et al, 1999). Satellite remote sensing is a valuable tool for as...

Modeling and Solving the Train Pathing Problem

In a railroad system, train pathing is concerned with the assignment of trains to links and tracks, and train timetabling allocates time slots to trains. In this paper, we present an optimization heuristic to solve the train pathing and timetabling problem. This heuristic allows the dwell time of trains in a station or link to be dependent on the assigned tracks. It also allows the minimum clea...