Bull, Simon Henry

Passenger railway transport is an effective means of providing high capacitytransport that is energy efficient and has low emissions. As the population ofDenmark grows and there is an increased request for mobility, there is a needfor railway services offering greater capacity and more reliability. Offeringthese services presents a challenging sequence of planning problems foroperators. These range from problems considered on a daily basis to planningfor years in the future, with different problems interacting and influencingeach other.Operations research methods can be used to effectively model, investigate,and solve railway planning problems. Despite advances in computationalpower these large problems are still challenging to solve, especially as moremodelling detail is sought. Within a Danish context this thesis seeks to applyoperations research methods to different planning problems beyond pastapproaches, and where applicable, investigate solution methods that placemore focus on the passenger and passenger experience. To cater to the growingdemand for rail transport, and compete with different modes of transport,Danish railway operators must offer a consistent, reliable service, that is wellplanned from both a passenger and operator perspective. This thesis thereforeconsiders different planning problems within passenger railway consideringrobustness of the system, and efficiency and optimality from the point of viewof the passenger or operator.The contributions of the thesis are in the investigation of robustness in railway,the application of optimization to a number of railway planning problems, anda detailed consideration of the specific concerns of Danish railway services.These contributions are summarised in the introductory chapter, and in thelatter part of the thesis are given in each chapter

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Efficiency and Robustness in Railway Operations

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