Best papers of the 5th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailCopenhagen 2013), 13 – 15 May 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark.

A selection of the Best Papers of RailCopenhagen 2013 were published in the Special Issue on Robust Rescheduling and Capacity Use in the Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, 3(3), 2013, with Guest Editor Ingo Hansen. The Editorial gives a brief description of the papers.

  1. Malin Forsgren, Martin Aronsson and Sara Gestrelius. Maintaining tracks and traffic flow at the same time.
  2. Rao, M. Montigel and U. Weidmann. Methods to improve railway capacity by integration of automatic train operation with centralized traffic management.
  3. Rob M.P. Goverde, Francesco Corman and Andrea D’Ariano. Railway line capacity consumption of different railway signalling systems under scheduled and disturbed conditions.
  4. Franke, B. Seybold, T. Büker, T. Graffagnino and H. Labermeier. OnTime: networkwide analysis of timetable stability
  5. Keisuke Sato, Kei Tamura and Norio Tomii. An optimal rescheduling algorithm from passengers’ viewpoint based on mixed integer programming formulation.
  6. Joris Wagenaar and Leo Kroon. Rolling stock rescheduling in passenger railway transportation by using dead-heading trips.
  7. Emma V. Andersson, Anders Peterson and Johanna Törnquist Krasemann. Introducing a new quantitative measure of railway timetable robustness based on critical points.
  8. Reuther, R. Borndörfer, T. Schlechte, S. Weider and K. Waas. Integrated optimization of rolling stock rotations for Intercity railways.
  9. Friederike Chu and Andreas Oetting. Quantifying infrastructure capacity consumption while transitioning to steady operations during disruptions in passenger rail transport.
  10. Cosciotti and S. Ricci. Simulation and functional requirements of energy-efficient driving.