Assessment of alternative line plans for severe winter conditions in the Netherlands

Winter weather has a major impact on railway operations in the Netherlands. To stay in control, the number of trains is reduced by 20% in a special “winter timetable”. This results in a more controllable network, but an insufficient amount of transport capacity. Adapting the line plan can result in...

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Published inPublic transport Vol. 9; no. 1-2; pp. 55 - 71
Main Authors Trap, Maarten L., Huisman, Dennis, Goverde, Rob M. P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.07.2017
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Automotive Engineering
Business and Management
CAE) and Design
Case studies
Climatology
Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD
Controllability
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Original Paper
Stability
Trains
Transport
Transportation
Weather
Netherlands
Controllability
Line planning
Railway optimization
Extreme weather
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Summary:Winter weather has a major impact on railway operations in the Netherlands. To stay in control, the number of trains is reduced by 20% in a special “winter timetable”. This results in a more controllable network, but an insufficient amount of transport capacity. Adapting the line plan can result in more transport capacity without losing controllability. This paper therefore focuses on the performance of a line plan under extreme weather conditions. We define several criteria to assess the performance of the line plan in terms of controllability and transport capacity. A case study has been conducted on the railway network in the Netherlands, which indicates that all alternatives are more controllable and yield more transport capacity than the current winter timetable.
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ISSN:1866-749X
1613-7159
DOI:10.1007/s12469-016-0149-4