Railway Applications Section

2009 San Diego CA

Railroad Capacity Planning Session I

Chair: Clark Cheng, Norfolk Southern Corp.

1. LineMAX: Line Capacity Analyzer at Norfolk Southern (Vinay Mehendiratta)

2. Capacity Planning and the Total Service Integration Process at CSX (Cary Helton)

3. Dispatching System Developments at BNSF Railway (Roger Baugher)

Railway Crew Scheduling

Chair: Kamalesh Somani, CSX Transportation

1. A Decision Support System for Railroad Crew Planning (Krishna Jha)

2. A Simulation-based Crew Planning Model to Improve Crew Utilization and Train Performance (Yudi Pranoto)

3. Strategic and Real-time Crew Scheduling Models at CSX Transportation (Kamalesh Somani)

Practical Application of OR in Rail Industry

Chair: April Kuo, BNSF Railway

1. Risk-Based Railroad Tank Car Safety Design Optimization (Rapik Saat)

2. Optimizing the Routing of Trains with Heterogeneous Traffic (Yung-Cheng Lai)

3. Effectively Solving Production Gang Scheduling Problem for Railway Track Maintenance Projects
(Gang Li)

4. Ballast Procurement and Delivery Optimization (Xiajun (Amy) Pan)

5. Freight Tariff Design for Multi-product Multimodal Networks: An MPEC Approach (Hani Mahmassani)

Next Generation Car Scheduling Systems II

Chair: Dharma Acharya, CSX Transportation

1. Design of Next Generation Car Scheduling Systems - Lessons Learned from Prior System (Carl Van Dyke)

2. Current and Future Car Scheduling System at BNSF (John Orrison)

3. Computational Results of Dynamic Car Scheduling Algorithms (Ravindra Ahuja)

Next Generation Car Scheduling Systems I

Chair: Dharma Acharya, CSX Transportation

1. Next Generation Car Scheduling System at Norfolk Southern (Dan Plonk)

2. Current and Future Car Scheduling System at CSX (Cary Helton)

3. Capacitated Car Scheduling on a Time/Space Network (Chip Kraft)

Planning Models for Rail Transportation

Chair: Theodore Crainic, University of Montreal

1. Scheduled Service Network Design for Rail Carriers (Endong Zhu)

2. Minimizing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Intermodal Freight Transport: An Application to Rail (Tolga Bektas)

3. Blocking Studies at CSX Transportation (Cary Helton)

4. Managing Locomotives in Freight Rail Transportation Systems (Mervat Chouman)

RAS Student Paper Session

Chair: Michael Gorman, University of Dayton

1. Network Design for Freight Rail Transportation (Endong Zhu)

2. Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for the Curfew Planning Problem (Ashish K. Nemani)

3. SAPI: Statistical Analysis of Propagation of Incidents. A New Approach for Rescheduling (Rodrigo Acuna-Agost)

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Jagadish Jampani (Jagadish_Jampani@CSX.com) RAS Chair 2013

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Juan Morales (Juan.Morales@BNSF.com) Chair 2013 Student Paper Award

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