2011 - Charlotte NC
RAS Business Meeting
| RAS Student Paper Research Contest, Chair: Juan Morales, BNSF Railway |
Time and Capacity Constrained Routing Problem in Railroad Planning (First Place)
Strategic Gang Scheduling for Railroad Maintenance (Second Place)
Periodical Rail Inspection Scheduling in Railroad Networks (Third Place)
| RAS Problem Solving Competition, Chair: Homarjun Agrahari, BNSF Railway |
Problem Description
A Network‐Oriented Formulation and Decomposition Approach to Solve the 2011 RAS Problem (First Place)
A Column-Row generation heuristic for the Train Design Optimization Problem (Second Place)
INFORMS RAS 2011 Problem Solving Competition (Third Place)
| Railway Safety and Capacity Research, Chair: Rapik Saat, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Integrated Railroad Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Risk Management Framework
A Multivariate Analysis of Railroad Toxic-Inhalation-Hazard (TIH) Transportation Release Rate
Effects of Highway-Rail Grade Crossings on Hazardous Materials Release Rates
Measuring the Capacity Impact of Higher Speed Passenger Trains
| Recent Advances in Transportation, Chair: Ravindra Ahuja, Innovative Scheduling |
A Hump Yard Planning System and Its Application for Yard Capacity Expansion Studies
Real-time Inter-modal Strategies for Airline Schedule Perturbation Recovery & Congestion Mitigation
Solving Linehaul Planning Problems for Less-Than-Truckload Carriers
| Modeling Opportunities in Improving Pickup/Delivery Freight Operation, Chair: Dharma Acharya, CSX Transportation |
Review of Delivery/Pickup Service Modeling Practices
Journey to a Customer Focused Culture
Improving Local Service at BNSF Railway
Small Yards: Increased Network Flexibility at Low Incremental Cost
| Revenue Management with Flexible Capacity, Chair: Aihong Wen, CSX Transportation |
An Application of Revenue Management at Con-way Freight
Charlie Rosa et. al. RAS 2011. Yield Management – The Next Advance in Railroad Profitability. Please contact the presenter for slides ('Rosa.Charles at con-way.com').
Revenue Management Approaches for Intermodal Freight
Hybrid Forecast and Leg Optimization in Passenger Rail System
| Railroad Disruption Management, Chair: Clark Cheng, Norfolk Southern Corporation |
Railroad Disruption Management and Opportunities for Modeling
Simulation of Disruptions in a Class I Railroad
Criticality Evaluation of Railway Infrastructure Based on Freight Flow Network Optimization
| Advances in OR/MS for Passenger Railways, Chair: David Hunt, Oliver Wyman |
An Exploratory Study of Revenue Management System (RMS) for a Railway in South East Asia
Software Tools to Optimize Crew Schedules for The New Hours of Service Rules
Capacity Planning for Shared Use Corridors
An Equipment Optimization Model for SEPTA
| Resource Planning, Chair: April Kuo, BNSF RAILWAY |
Locomotive Assignment with Train Delay Options
General Model of Railway Transportation Capacity
Assigning Train Crews in Double-ended Districts
A Time-Space Network Flow Model for Coal/Bulk Reservations Optimization
| Transportation System Timetabling and Scheduling, Chair: Xuesong Zhou, University of Utah |
Generating and Optimizing Cyclic Timetables using Relational Algebra
Reduce Number of Constraints in Train Scheduling Problem: A Hypergraph based Formulation
A Parallel Heuristic for Fast Train Dispatching During Railway Traffic Disturbance Early Results
Concepts from Public Transit Service Planning
| High-Speed Rail: International Experience and Research Needs in US, Chair: Xuesong Zhou, University of Utah |
Analyzing the Influence of Train Operation Plan on Passenger Demands of High Speed Railway
High Speed Rail Requirements in North America
High-Speed Railway in Korea: Past, Present and Future
An Integrated Optimization Model and Algorithm for Rail Train Operating Plan and Locomotive
