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Shunting of Passenger Train Units in a Railway Station
In this paper we introduce the problem of shunting passenger train
units in a railway station. Shunting occurs whenever train units are
temporarily not necessary to operate a given timetable. We discuss
several aspects of this problem and focus on two subproblems. We
propose mathematical models for these subproblems together with a
solution method based on column generation. Furthermore, a new
efficient and speedy solution technique for pricing problems in column
generation algorithms is introduced. Finally, we present computational
results based on real life instances from Netherlands Railways
Unsupervised approach towards analysing the public transport bunching swings formation phenomenon
We perform an analysis of public transport data from The Hague, the Netherlands, combined from three sources: static network information, automatic vehicles location and automated fare collection data. We highlight the effect of bunching swings, and show that this phenomenon can be extracted using unsupervised machine learning techniques, namely clustering. We also show the correlation between bunching rate and passenger load, and bunching probability patterns for working days and weekends. We present the approach for extracting isolated bunching swings formations (BSF) and show different cases of BSFs, some of which can persist for a considerable time. We applied our approach to the tram line 1 of The Hague, and computed and presented four different patterns of BSFs, which we name “high passenger load”, “whole route”, “evening, end of route”, “long duration”. We analyse each bunching swings formation type in detail
Unsupervised approach towards analysing the public transport bunching swings formation phenomenon
We perform an analysis of public transport data from The Hague, the Netherlands, combined from three sources: static network information, automatic vehicles location and automated fare collection data. We highlight the effect of bunching swings, and show that this phenomenon can be extracted using unsupervised machine learning techniques, namely clustering. We also show the correlation between bunching rate and passenger load, and bunching probability patterns for working days and weekends. We present the approach for extracting isolated bunching swings formations (BSF) and show different cases of BSFs, some of which can persist for a considerable time. We applied our approach to the tram line 1 of The Hague, and computed and presented four different patterns of BSFs, which we name “high passenger load”, “whole route”, “evening, end of route”, “long duration”. We analyse each bunching swings formation type in detail
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