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.

  1. Diego Arenas, Paola Pellegrini, Saïd Hanafi and Joaquin Rodriguez. Timetable optimization during railway infrastructure maintenance.
  2. 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.
  3. Nikola Besinovic ́, Egidio Quaglietta and Rob M.P. Goverde. Resolving instability in railway timetabling problems.
  4. Yuan Gao and Lixing Yang. Scheduling additional trains on a high-speed rail corridor.
  5. Sara Gestrelius, Martin Aronsson, Martin Joborn and Markus Bohlin. Towards a comprehensive model for track allocation and roll-time scheduling at marshalling yards.
  6. Jiajian Liang, Ullrich Martin and Yong Cui. Increasing performance of railway systems by exploitation of the relationship between capacity and operation quality.
  7. Xiaojie Luan, Francesco Corman, Yihui Wang, Lingyun Meng and Gabriel Lodewijks. Integrated optimization of traffic management and train control for rail networks.
  8. Sofie Burggraeve and Pieter Vansteenwegen. Optimization of supplements and buffer times in passenger robust microscopic timetabling.
  9. Sander Van Aken, Nikola Besinovic ́ and Rob M.P. Goverde. Solving large-scale train timetable adjustment problems under infrastructure maintenance possessions.
  10. John Armstrong and John Preston. Capacity utilisation and performance at railway stations.
  11. İsmail Şahin. Markov chain model for delay distribution in train schedules.