Best papers of the 6th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailTokyo 2015), 23 – 26 March 2015, Tokyo, Japan.

The Best Papers of RailTokyo 2015 were published in the Special Issue on Optimal (Re)scheduling and Energy Saving in the Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, 5(3), 2015, with Guest Editors Ingo Hansen and Norio Tomii. The Editorial gives a brief description of the papers.

  1. Johanna Törnquist Krasemann. Computational decision-support for railway traffic management and associated configuration challenges: An experimental study.
  2. Emma V. Andersson, Anders Peterson, Johanna Törnquist Krasemann. Reduced railway traffic delays using a MILP approach to increase Robustness in Critical Points.
  3. Yasufumi Ochiai and Norio Tomii. Punctuality analysis using a microscopic simulation in which drivers’ behaviour is considered.
  4. Marcella Samà, Carlo Meloni, Andrea D’Ariano, Francesco Corman. A multi-criteria decision support methodology for real-time train scheduling.
  5. Amie R. Albrecht, Phil G. Howlett, Peter J. Pudney, Xuan Vu and Peng Zhou. Energy-efficient train control: The two-train separation problem on level track.
  6. Shoichiro Watanabe and Takafumi Koseki. Energy-saving train scheduling diagram for automatically operated electric railway.