Best papers of the 7th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailLille2017), l4-7 April 2017, Lille, France.
A selection of the Best Papers of RailLille2017 were published in the Special Issue on Best Papers of RailLille 2017 in the Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, 7(3), 2017, with Guest Editors Joaquin Rodriguez and Norio Tomii. The Guest Editorial gives a brief description of the papers.
- Diego Arenas, Paola Pellegrini, Saïd Hanafi and Joaquin Rodriguez. Timetable optimization during railway infrastructure maintenance.
- Norman Weik and Nils Nießen. A quasi-birth-and-death process approach for integrated capacity and reliability modeling of railway systems with fallible infrastructure components.
- Nikola Besinovic ́, Egidio Quaglietta and Rob M.P. Goverde. Resolving instability in railway timetabling problems.
- Yuan Gao and Lixing Yang. Scheduling additional trains on a high-speed rail corridor.
- Sara Gestrelius, Martin Aronsson, Martin Joborn and Markus Bohlin. Towards a comprehensive model for track allocation and roll-time scheduling at marshalling yards.
- Jiajian Liang, Ullrich Martin and Yong Cui. Increasing performance of railway systems by exploitation of the relationship between capacity and operation quality.
- Xiaojie Luan, Francesco Corman, Yihui Wang, Lingyun Meng and Gabriel Lodewijks. Integrated optimization of traffic management and train control for rail networks.
- Sofie Burggraeve and Pieter Vansteenwegen. Optimization of supplements and buffer times in passenger robust microscopic timetabling.
- Sander Van Aken, Nikola Besinovic ́ and Rob M.P. Goverde. Solving large-scale train timetable adjustment problems under infrastructure maintenance possessions.
- John Armstrong and John Preston. Capacity utilisation and performance at railway stations.
- İsmail Şahin. Markov chain model for delay distribution in train schedules.