The 11th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailDresden 2025) was held during April 1-4, 2025, in Dresden. From the submitted research papers the top 10 Best Papers were selected by the Scientific Advisory Committee and announced in the closing ceremony. The winning papers were as follows:
- Pengling Wang, Yutao Ye, Nils Nießen. Determine line plan and fare pricing strategies for newly constructed lines with dynamic interactions of passenger demand with travel time and ticket costs
- Florian Fuchs, Bernardo Martin-Iradi, Francesco Corman. Optimizing periodic stability in railway timetables: a microscopic model for networks with a macroscopic comparison
- Tamme Emunds, Nils Nießen. A queueing-based approach for timetable-independent railway station performance analysis
- Marta Leonina Tessitore, Marcella Samà, Giorgio Sartor, Carlo Mannino, Dario Pacciarelli. A fragility-based approach to timetable design
- Ranfei Zheng, Lingyun Meng, Xiaojie Luan, Jianrui Miao, Zhengwen Liao, Valentina Cacchiani, Feng Ran. Resource-based integrated train rescheduling and rolling stock circulation replanning under different rolling stock usage rules
- Renate van der Knaap, Niels van Oort, Rob Goverde. Multi-period railway timetabling to serve time-dependent demand
- Yahan Lu, Rob Goverde, Gábor Maróti, Dennis Huisman. An iterative heuristic for strategic timetabling with integrated passenger routing in railway networks
- Marko Kapetanović, Nikola Bešinović, Alfredo Núñez, Niels van Oort, Rob Goverde. An intermittent partial electrification network design problem for the introduction of battery-electric regional trains
- Peiran Han, Lingyun Meng, Xiaojie Luan, Jianrui Miao, Zhengwen Liao, Nikola Bešinović. A reward-driven 0-1 integer programming for optimizing railroad flat yard switching: A sequential decision approach
- Natchaya Tortainchai, Taku Fujiyama. Train dwell time models for high-passenger-volume stations using a bivariate distribution function
The authors of the Best Papers were invited to submit their paper to the Special Issue on the Best Papers of RailDresden 2025 in the Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management (JRTPM).
