Formation of the freight trains with a fixed train schedule

How to Park Freight Trains on Rail-Rail Transshipment Yards: The Train Location Problem

In modern rail-rail transshipment yards huge gantry cranes spanning all railway tracks allow for an e cient transshipment of containers between di erent freight trains. This way, multiple trains loaded with cargo for varying destinations can be consolidated to a reduced number of homogeneous trains, which is an essential requirement of hub-and-spoke railway systems. An important problem during ...

Impact of High-Speed Passenger Trains on Freight Train Efficiency in Shared Railway Corridors

Intelligent Telemetry for Freight Trains

Within the North American freight railroad industry, there is currently an effort to enable more intelligent telemetry for freight trains. By enabling greater visibility of their rolling stock, including locomotives and railroad cars, railroad companies hope to improve their asset utilization, operational safety, and business profitability. Different communication and sensing technologies are b...

Concurrent Locomotive Assignment and Freight Train Scheduling

The locomotive assignment and the freight train scheduling are important problems in railway transportation. Freight cars are coupled to form a freight rake. The freight rake becomes a train when a locomotive is coupled to it. The locomotive assignment problem assigns locomotives to a set of freight rakes in a way that, with minimum locomotive deadheading time, rake coupling delay and locomotiv...

Schedulling the delivery of orders by a freight train

In this research it was considered the particular case of a railway problem, specifically, the construction of orders delivery schedule for one locomotive plying among three railway stations. In this paper it was suggested a polynomial algorithm and were shown the results of a computing experiment.