A MILP model to improve the robustness of a railway timetable by retiming and rerouting in a complex bottleneck area

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Inneke Van Hoeck, Pieter Vansteenwegen

Published: 01 Jan 2024, Last Modified: 13 May 2025J. Rail Transp. Plan. Manag. 2024EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•We propose a MILP model to improve the robustness of an existing railway timetable.•The timetable is considered in microscopic detail.•Our objective aims at finding a good spreading in time of the trains.•The model is flexible to use in practice.•The model is successfully tested on a complex bottleneck area of the Belgian network.