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In this paper we address a variant of the freight train routing problem to estimate the residual capacity in railway networks with regular passenger services. By ensemble averaging over a random temporal distribution of usable slots in the network, bounds on the number of additional freight trains on predefined relations are established. For the solution, a two-step capacitated routing approach based on a time-expanded network is used. The approach is applied in a case study to freight relations in the railway network of North Rhine Westphalia.
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This work was supported by German Research Foundation (DFG) with research grant 283085490 and RTG 2236 “UnRAVeL”.
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Weik, N., Hemminki, E., Nießen, N. (2020). The Effective Residual Capacity in Railway Networks with Predefined Train Services. In: Neufeld, J.S., Buscher, U., Lasch, R., Möst, D., Schönberger, J. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2019. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48439-2_88
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