A selection of the Best Papers of RailDresden 2025 were published in the Virtual Special Issue on the Best Papers of RailDresden 2025 in the Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management with Guest Editors Nikola Bešinović and Jörn Schonberger.
- 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.