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Wed Nov 14 2012 - B&T12702_ERIM_Omslag_Dollevoet_14nov12.pdf DELAY MANAGEMENT AND DISPATCHING IN RAILWAYS 272 TWAN DOLLEVOET Passenger railway transportation plays a crucial role in the mobility in Europe. Since the privatization of the railway sector in the 90s, passenger satisfaction has become an important performance indicator in this sector. A key aspect for passengers is the reliabil - ity of transfers between trains. When a train arrives at the station with a delay, Delay Management and passengers might miss their connection if the next train departs on time. These passengers TWAN DOLLEVOET - Delay Management and Dispatching in Raillways then prefer the connecting train to wait, but this introduces delays for many other passen - Dispatching in Railways gers. Delay Management is a field in railway operations that deals with this situation. It determines whether a connecting train should wait for the passengers that arrive with a delayed train or should depart on time. In this thesis, we apply techniques from Operations Research to develop models and solution approaches for Delay Management. The objective in our models is the minimiza - tion of passenger delay. First, we extend the classical delay management model with passenger rerouting. This allows us to compute the exact delays for passengers. We devel - op an exact algorithm and several heuristics to solve this extension. Then, we incorporate the limited capacity of the stations in our models. Stations are the bottlenecks of the railway infrastructure, where delays of one train can easily propagate to other trains. When optimizing the wait-depart decisions, these secondary delays should be considered. We therefore develop an integrated model that includes headway constraints for trains on the same track in the station and an iterative approach that evaluates the timetable Design & layout: B&T Ontwerp en advies (www.b-en-t.nl) Print: Haveka (www.haveka.nl) microscopically. The Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) is the Research School (Onder - zoek school) in the field of management of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The founding participants of ERIM are the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), and the Erasmus School of Econo mics (ESE). ERIM was founded in 1999 and is officially accre dited by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The research under taken by ERIM is focused on the management of the firm in its environment, its intra- and interfirm relations, and its busi ness processes in their interdependent connections. The objective of ERIM is to carry out first rate research in manage ment, and to offer an ad vanced doctoral pro gramme in Research in Management. Within ERIM, over three hundred senior researchers and PhD candidates are active in the different research pro - grammes. From a variety of acade mic backgrounds and expertises, the ERIM commu nity is united in striving for excellence and working at the fore front of creating new business knowledge. Erasmus Research Institute of Management - ERIM PhD Series Research in Management Erasmus Research Institute of Management - Tel. +31 10 408 11 82 Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) Fax +31 10 408 96 40 ERIM Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) E-mail [email protected] Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) Internet www.erim.eur.nl P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Delay Management and Dispatching in Railways Delay Management and Dispatching in Railways Het besturen van aansluitingen bij een spoorwegvervoerder Thesis to obtain the degree of Doctor from the Erasmus University Rotterdam by command of the rector magnificus Prof.dr. H.G. Schmidt and in accordance with the decision of the Doctorate Board. The public defense shall be held on Thursday 10 January 2013 at 13:30 hrs by Twan Antonius Bernardus Dollevoet born in Nuland, the Netherlands. Doctoral Committee Promotor: Prof.dr. A.P.M. Wagelmans Other members: Prof.dr. L.G. Kroon Prof.dr. A. Sch¨obel Dr. D. Pacciarelli Copromotor: Dr. D. Huisman Erasmus Research Institute of Management - ERIM The joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam Internet: http://www.erim.eur.nl ERIM Electronic Series Portal: http://hdl.handle.net/1765/1 ERIM PhD Series in Research in Management, 272 ERIM reference number: EPS-2013-272-LIS ISBN 978-90-5892-318-9 c 2013, Twan Dollevoet Design: B&T Ontwerp en advies www.b-en-t.nl This publication (cover and interior) is printed by haveka.nl on recycled paper, ReviveR . The ink used is produced from renewable resources and alcohol free fountain solution. Certifications for the paper and the printing production process: Recycle, EU Flower, FSC, ISO14001. More info: http://www.haveka.nl/greening All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author. Acknowledgments This thesis summarizes the research I have been working on during the past five years. Many people have contributed to this thesis and have made my time as a PhD student really enjoyable. I have been looking forward to this opportunity to thank these people. First and foremost, I want to express my gratitude to my supervisors Dennis Huisman and Albert Wagelmans. Dennis introduced me to the topic of railway scheduling while I was writing my master’s thesis at Netherlands Railways in 2007. I really enjoyed our co- operation, so I was very glad with the opportunity to do my PhD research under Dennis’ supervision. Dennis, I thank you for your guidance and inspiration over the years. After every meeting we had, I continued to work on our research with renewed enthusiasm. I am also grateful for your clear road map towards the completion of this thesis and for making sure that I started writing our papers whenever that was necessary. Albert, many thanks for being my promotor. Whenever I needed any advice, you were always there to help me. Part of the research described in this thesis has been carried out during two research visits at the Georg-August-Universit¨at. During these periods in G¨ottingen, I was a guest of Anita Sch¨obel. I warmly thank Anita for her supervision and hospitality. I am very pleased that she agreed to be a member of my inner committee. Besides Anita, I want to thank her colleague Stephan Westphal and the PhD students Marie, Thorsten, Marc, Ruth, Robert, and Jonas for the good times in G¨ottingen. I enjoyed the joint research with Anita and Marie, which has resulted in several pub- lications and forms the basis for Chapters 2 and 4 of this thesis. I also want to thank Francesco Corman and Andrea D’Ariano for our cooperation, which is presented in Chap- ter 5. I am also indebted to the other members of the inner committee, Dario Pacciarelli and Leo Kroon, for their valuable time to evaluate this thesis. In particular, I want to thank Leo for his detailed comments on an earlier draft and for pointing out an error in one of the chapters. I also thank Leo van Dongen and Rommert Dekker for being a member of my doctoral committee. vi Acknowledgments After my internship, NS provided me the opportunity to be involved in the further de- velopment of our crew scheduling algorithm LUCIA with a part-time position at the innovation department. It has been very inspiring to see how this algorithm has been implemented in the planning process and is now used in practice. The atmosphere at our department π has always been motivating. I want to thank all my colleagues at NS for their support and the nice years as an employee of NS. Particularly, I thank Erwin for allowing me to schedule my days at NS with much freedom. Without this flexibility, it would have been much harder to combine both jobs. Most of the ideas described in this thesis have emerged from everlasting coffee breaks with my fellow PhD students in OR. I have always appreciated these breaks and our joint lunches and dinners. I want to thank Kristiaan, Remy, Ilse, Zahra, Willem, Judith, Mathijn, Lanah and my roommate Joris for always being there if I had a question or needed a two-minute or two-hour break. Willem, thank you for sharing your brilliant idea to switch to econometrics 7 years ago, for the cooperation during the last 11 years, and for your help and advice on all issues I have encountered during that period. I am happy that you agreed to be one of my paranymphs. Furthermore, I want to thank the fellow PhD students from RSM, in particular the other railway PhDs Luuk, Evelien, Paul, and Joris, and Evsen for our valuable discussions during several lunch seminars. Kar Yin, thank you for a template for this thesis and for answering all my questions about the ceremony and the schedule towards the completion of this thesis. Most importantly, I thank all fellow PhDs, in particular Anne, for our weekly drinks in the Smitse and for our adventures in Lunteren, Tromsø, Lisbon, Austin, Melbourne, and Santiago. My final word of thanks goes to my friends and family. I truly believe that our every- day work benefits from having some distraction at times. I want to thank Jeroen and Lonneke, Willem and Eva, Rudi and Sylvia, Ruud and Roel, Joran and Lydia, Otto and Lonneke, Wilbert and Hanneke, Thijs and Willeke, Paul and Esther, Luc, Arthur and Marieke, Kyra, Annemieke, Janneke, Imke, and Marieke for making sure my life was not only about trains and scheduling algorithms.

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