Assessment of Robustness in Railway Traffic Timetables

Abstract

The overall aim of this thesis is to analyse the robustness of railway traffic timetables; why delays are propagating in the network and how the timetable design and dispatching strategies influence the delays. Measures that identify where and how to improve the robustness and thereby indicating how and where margin time should be inserted. critical points, which is a practical approach to identify robustness weaknesses in a timetable