The aim of this paper is to analyze and to improve the current planning process of the passenger railway service. At first, the state-of-the-art in research is presented. Given the recent changes in legislature allowing competitors to enter the railway industry in Europe, also known as liberalization of railways, the current way of planning does not reflect the situation anymore. The original p...

The adoption of REST an architectural paradigm focusing on resources by various providers like Google, Facebook and Yahoo strongly influences traditional Business Process design approaches layered atop of Web service description language (WSDL) and SOAP based Web services. Beside the architectural differences manifested in integration challenges for existing business process environments this n...