Railway Applications Section

Austin 2010 Meeting

Presentations

Student Rail Research Competition - FINALIST Presentations

Chair: Michael Gorman, University of Dayton

2. Robust Train Dispatching Model Under a Dynamic and Stochastic Environment: A Scenario-based Rolling Horizon Solution Approach (Xuesong Zhou)

1. Delay Management with Re-Routing of Passengers (Twan Dollevoet)

RAS Problem Solving Competition - 2010

Chair: Shankara Kuppa, Union Pacific Railroad, Co-Chair: Homarjun Agrahari, BNSF Railway

Kamalesh Somani, CSX - Problem description

EDRAMSDEN, Members - Ed Ramsden, Lattice Semiconductor Corp., USA

HALOS, Members - Virot Chiraphadhanakul, Cristian Figueroa, MIT, USA

TAU-IE, Members - Mor Kaspi & Tal Raviv, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Roundtable I - Upcoming Topics in Railroad OR

Chair: David Hunt, Co-Chair: Carl Van Dyke

1. Current Trends and Future Topics Rail Research: A Survey and Forecast (Michael Gorman)

2. Use Operations Research Models to Improve Railroad Operations (Clark Cheng)

3. The Impacts of Positive Train Control (PTC) and Implications for Further Research (Carl VanDyke)

Roundtable II - Panel Discussion On the Collaborative Railroad Research

Chair: Chris Barkan, UIUC, Co-Chair: Teodor Gabriel Crainic, CIRRELT, Montreal

Panelists: Chris Barkan, Theodor Crainic, Pooja Dewan, John Gary, Dharma Acharya

Current O.R. Based Planning Tools Used by US Railroads, and Opportunities for Further Application of O.R.

Chair: Ron Griffith, BNSF Railway

1. MIP Based Approach to Solve Train Routing Problem (Ravindra Ahuja)

2. PHMSA Route Analyzer: An Algorithm Based Routing Tool for TIH/PIH Traffic (Viraj Karnik)

3. Application of OR Models in Service Design (Dharma Acharya)

Operations Research Application in Railroad Engineering

Chair: Jagadish Jampani, CSX Transportation

1. Rail Test Scheduling at CSX (Kamalesh Somani)

2. Scheduling Rail Grinding Operations (Kurshad Derinkuyu)

3. Routing and Scheduling Preventive Railway Maintenance with Predetermined Desired Reliability (Anand Retharekar)

Fleet Management Models in Rail Transportation

Chair: Brian Lunday, United States Military Academy

1. Estimating Order Flow Times in Freight Rail Networks (Ram Gopalan)

2. An Approximate Dynamic Programming Model for Locomotive Optimization (Belgacem Bouzaiene-Ayari)

3. Probabilistic and Possibilistic Optimal Wagon Management Models for Stochastic Railways Networks (Loukas Dimitriou)

4. Equitable Apportionment of Railcars within a Pooling Agreement for Shipping Automobiles (Brian Lunday)

Railroad OR Models

Chair: Clark Cheng, Norfolk Southern Corp

1. Simplified and Integrated Decision Support System for Real-time Train Traffic Management (Michael Swindler)

2. Algorithms for Scheduling Freight Trains Over a Complex Rail Network (Pavan Murali)

3. A Heuristic Approach to a Classification Yard's Scheduling Problem (Shuangjun Xia)

Joint Sessions - RAS/TSL: Recent Advances in Transportation Planning Systems

Chair: Ravindra Ahuja, University of Florida & Innovative Scheduling

1. A New Solution for Rail Service Network Design Problem (Endong Zhu)

2. An Algorithmic Approach to Design an Optimal Truckload Plan for Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) Carriers (Artyom Nahapetyan)

3. Computational Results of Solving Large-Scale Network Design and Routing Problems (Ravindra Ahuja)

Train Timetabling

Chair: Xuesong Zhou, University of Utah

1. Optimizing Train Priorities to Support Regulation of Train Services with Economic Constraints (Christian Sakowitz)

2. Comparison of Planning a Tonnage Based Railway Versus a Scheduled Based Railway (Marc Meketon)

3. Deterministic Scheduling Formulations for Train Pathing and Timetabling (Steven Harrod)

4. High-speed Passenger Trains on Freight Tracks: Modeling Issues on Train Timetabling and Dispatching (Xuesong Zhou)

Hot Topics in Railroad Operations Research

Chris Barkan, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1. Determining the Causes of Train Delay (Mark Dingler)

2. Risk Analysis of Multiple-Car Releases in Railroad Hazardous Materials Transportation (Xiang Liu)

3. Efficient Automation: Applying Lean Manufacturing to Freight Car Inspection and Maintenance (Bryan Schlake)

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Key Contacts

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

Krishna Jha (krishna@innovativescheduling.com) RAS Vice-Chair 2013

Sandra D. Eksioglu (sde47@ise.msstate.edu) Chair 2013 RAS Problem Solving Competition

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

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