Best papers of the 9th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailBeijing 2021), 3-7 November, 2021, Beijing, China.

A selection of the Best Papers of RailBeijing 2021 were published in the Virtual Special Issue on the Best Papers of RailBeijing 2021 in the Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management with Guest Editors Lingyun Meng, Yun Bai and Nie Lei.

  1. Yongqiu Zhu, Pengling Wang and Francesco Corman. A deep reinforcement learning framework for delay management with passenger re-routing.
  2. Norman Weik. Macroscopic traffic flow in railway systems: a discussion of the applicability of fundamental diagrams.
  3. Yongxiang Zhang, Tao Feng, Xiaowei Liu, Qingwei Zhong, Xu Yan and Qiyuan Peng. A price-based iterative solution framework for integrating line planning and train timetabling problems.
  4. Xiaojie Luan and Francesco Corman. Passenger-oriented traffic management for railway networks: an integrated supply-demand approach based on a discrete choice model.
  5. Marko Kapetanović, Alfredo Núñez, Niels van Oort and Rob Goverde. Analysis of hydrogen-powered propulsion system alternatives for diesel-electric multiple unit regional trains.
  6. Thomas Schlechte, Ralf Borndörfer, Jonas Denißen, Simon Heller, Torsten Klug, Michael Kuepper, Niels Lindner, Markus Reuther, Andreas Soehlke and William Steadman. Microscopic timetable optimization for a moving block system.
  7. Martin Joborn and Zohreh Ranjbar. Understanding causes of unpunctual trains: delay contribution and critical disturbances.
  8. Christian Liebchen, Steffen Dutsch, Shiguang Jin, Norio Tomii and Yihui Wang. The ring never relieves.
  9. Marta Leonina Tessitore, Marcella Samà, Andrea D’Ariano and Dario Pacciarelli. Assessment of disturbance recovery strategies in a busy metro system.
  10. Jia Ning, Qiyuan Peng, Yongqiu Zhu, Yu Jiang and Otto A. Nielsen. A bi-objective optimization model for the last train timetabling problem.
  11. Egidio Quaglietta, Panagiotis Spartalis, Meng Wang, Rob Goverde and Paul van Koningsbruggen. Modelling and analysis of Virtual Coupling with dynamic safety margin considering risk factors in railway operations.
  12. Francesco Corman and Jonas Henken. Estimating aggregate railway performance from realized empirical data.
  13. Jingru Huang, Yue Chen, Jiajun Hu and Qi Xu Relationship between built environment characteristics of TOD and subway ridership: a station level of causal and regression analysis in Beijing.