The market share of railway transportation is in the downwards trend. In order to reverse this trend, the railway has taken a series of countermeasures which have resulted in obvious effects. 1.To set up the railway freight and passenger transport marketing system which can meet the requirement of market. 2.To make the railway transport enterprises operational mechanism be matched with market e...

Track Maintenance is crucial for the safe and efficient of railway transportation. After analysis of foreign management techniques for high-speed railway track maintenance, combined with the characteristic of passenger dedicated line in China, this paper has explored new ideas of the information system of passenger dedicated line track maintenance and at the same time researched on the theory a...

This paper provides a highly integrated solution approach for rolling stock planning problems in the context of intercity passenger traffic. The main contributions are a generic hypergraph based mixed integer programming model and an integrated algorithm for the considered rolling stock rotation planning problem. The new developed approach is able to handle a very large set of industrial railwa...

We consider delay management in railway systems. Given delayed trains, we want to find a waiting policy for the connecting trains minimizing the weighted total passenger delay. If there is a single delayed train and passengers transfer at most twice along fixed routes, or if the railway network has a tree structure, the problem can be solved by reduction to min-cut problems. For delayed passeng...

In passenger railway optimization one of the main goals is to make efficient plans that can accommodate all passengers or, if that is not possible, that minimize the seat shortages. In the planning process, a railway operator tries to match the demand by first selecting an appropriate timetable followed by a matching rolling stock schedule. We focus on the second stage where a rolling stock sch...

In 2001, railways in Japan carried 21.79 billion passengers (25.1% of all passenger transport) or 384.5 billion passenger-km (27% of all passenger transport). Rail freight totalled 59 million tonnes (1.0% of all freight transport) or 22.2 billion tonnekm (3.8% of total), clearly indicating that Japanese railway operators are almost exclusively passenger companies. Following the 1987 privatizati...

A methodology for the classification of railway passenger stations was developed in this study. Four groups of factors are defined to study the characteristics of the station: potential of the town, importance of the town, infrastructural factors, and characteristics of passengers. In the research we investigated 18 factors and studied 98 passenger stations of railway network in Bulgaria. The m...

wTere prepared, is devoted to the auditing of the receipts of the interurban section of the railway, both passenger and express. This division also keeps records of car mileage and calculates the expenses and receipts of operating cars in terms of car miles, passenger miles, car hours and other statistical units. The daily receipts of cash and tickets of each conductor on the interurban divisio...

We consider the Train Unit Shunting Problem, an important planning problem for passenger railway operators. This problem entails assigning physical train units to scheduled train services in such a way that the resulting shunting yard operations are feasible. As such, it arises at every shunting yard in the railway network and involves matching train units to arriving and departing train servic...