Timetable design

Railway Passenger Service Timetable Design

The aim of this paper is to analyze and to improve the current planning process of the passenger railway service. At first, the state-of-the-art in research is presented. Given the recent changes in legislature allowing competitors to enter the railway industry in Europe, also known as liberalization of railways, the current way of planning does not reflect the situation anymore. The original p...

Behaviorally Driven Train Timetable Design

The focus of this thesis is to include the passengers and their behavior inside the train timetable design. This is done through three main objectives: timetable design based on passenger satisfaction, exploitation of hybrid cyclicity and choice based revenue optimization. At first, a new Passenger Centric Train Timetabling Problem is introduced into the planning horizon of the passenger railwa...

Timetable

Spoken and Multimodal Bus Timetable Systems: Design, Development and Evaluation

We present three speech-based bus timetable systems with different approaches. The first system had open user-initiative dialogues aiming at natural interaction. The user tests revealed several problems with this approach, and we developed solutions from multiple perspectives to overcome the problems. The second system focuses on task-oriented system-initiative dialogues, and contains a multimo...

Demand-oriented timetable design for urban rail transit under stochastic demand

In the context of public transportation system, improving the service quality and robustness through minimizing the average passengers waiting time is a real challenge. This study provides robust stochastic programming models for train timetabling problem in urban rail transit systems. The objective is minimization of the weighted summation of the expected cost of passenger waiting time, its va...