Rescheduling Railway Traffic on Real Time Situations Using Time-Interval Variables

• Published in: Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming Vol. 10335; pp. 312 - 327
• Main Authors: Cappart, Quentin, Schaus, Pierre
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2017; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: First Come First Serve; Freight Train; Improvement Ratio; Route Activity; Track Segment
• ISBN: 9783319597751; 3319597752
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59776-8_26

In the railway domain, the action of directing the traffic in accordance with an established timetable is managed by a software. However, in case of real time perturbations, the initial schedule may become infeasible or suboptimal. Subsequent decisions must then be taken manually by an operator in a...