A Decision Support System for real-time rescheduling of railways

Author

Dotoli, Mariagrazia ; Epicoco, Nicola ; Falagario, Marco ; Turchiano, B. ; Cavone, Graziana ; Convertini, Antonio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Inf. Eng, Polytech. of Bari, Bari, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

24-27 June 2014

Firstpage

696

Lastpage

701

Abstract

We present a Decision Support System (DSS) for real-time management of railway networks. The DSS employs a mathematical programming approach addressing traffic rescheduling under unexpected disturbances in a mixed-(single- and double-) tracked network. The DSS simulates the network behavior with the mathematical programming model based on the railway topology and constraints, rescheduling the timetable in real time, detecting and solving conflicts in the network. The DSS is applied to a real data set related to a large portion of a regional network in Southern Italy.

Keywords

decision support systems; mathematical programming; railways; scheduling; DSS; Southern Italy; decision support system; double-tracked network; mathematical programming approach; mixed-tracked network; railway constraints; railway network real-time management; railway topology; real-time rescheduling; single-tracked network; traffic rescheduling; Computational modeling; Decision support systems; Delays; Mathematical model; Rail transportation; Real-time systems; Robustness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Conference (ECC), 2014 European

Conference_Location

Strasbourg

Print_ISBN

978-3-9524269-1-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECC.2014.6862177

Filename

6862177