Posted in July 2026
Advances in Railway Transport Planning
On the occasion of the public defence of Renate van der Knaap, TRAIL, the Digital Rail Traffic Lab and the Smart Public Transport Lab organised a seminar on advances in railway transport planning on June 29th. Find the presentations of the three speakers below:
Prof. Dr. Christian Liebchen (TH Wildau, Germany): Individual optimization solutions for crew scheduling problems of a train operating company
Prof. Dr. ir. Pieter Vansteenwegen (KU Leuven, Belgium): How the direct link network and network decomposition speed up passenger assignment
Dr. ir. Ties Brands (NS; Netherlands Railways): Variation in train demand at Dutch Railways
The thesis of Renate van der Knaap can be found here: Multi-Period Line Planning and Timetabling for Varying Railway Passenger Demand