Train scheduling is a critical activity in rail traffic management, both off-line (timetabling) and on-line (dispatching). Time-Indexed formulations for scheduling problems are stronger than other classical formulations, like Big-M. Unfortunately, their size grows usually very large with the...

Chapter1: Simulation of Rail Operations -- Chapter2: Capacity Assessment in Railway Networks -- Chapter3: Aggregation methods for railway network design based on lifted Benders Cuts -- Chapter4: Freight Train Routing -- Chapter5: Robust Train Timetabling -- Chapter6: Modern Challenges in...