In this paper, we give an overview of state-of-the-art Operations Research models and techniques used in passenger railway transportation. For each planning phase (strategic, tactical and operational), we describe the planning problems arising there and discuss some models and algorithms to solve them. We do not only consider classical, well-known topics such as timetabling, rolling stock sched...

Many of the existing methods for evaluating an airline’s on-time performance are based on flight-centric measures of delay. However, recent research has demonstrated that passenger delays depend on many factors in addition to flight delays. For instance, significant passenger delays result from flight cancellations and missed connections, which themselves depend on a significant number of facto...

the passenger line planning is a process of strategic long-term decision-making problem in the field of railway passenger planning. a line is a route between starting point and destination with certain stops, which has a certain frequency of train schedule. a new solution based on decomposition algorithm has been proposed in this paper, which is defined in a master problem and two sub problems....

Delay management for public transport consists of deciding whether vehicles should wait for delayed transferring passengers, with the objective of minimizing the overall passenger discomfort. We model the underlying transportation network as a directed acyclic graph, where edges represent trains, and weighted paths represent passenger flows. Given initial delays of some of the passenger paths, ...

Public transportation systems across the United States serve millions of riders every day, forming crucial links between people and their daily destinations. In this work, we develop a method for modeling public transportation systems as network graphs. We use the resultant graphs to study the properties of 18 public transportation systems from cities and counties in the United States and Canad...