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Urban rail traffic plays a key role in public transportation since it combines high transport capacity and high efficiency. More specifically, a safe, fast, punctual, energy-efficient, and comfortable railway system is important for the economic, environmental, and social objectives of a country or a city. The main focus of this book is on saving energy in railway operations and on enhancing the passenger satisfaction, which can be achieved via optimal trajectory planning for trains and passenger demand-oriented train scheduling by utilizing several mathematical tools and programming methods like MILP, SQP, etc. In this chapter, we provide a brief introduction to railway operations and then present the structure of this book.
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Wang, Y., Ning, B., van den Boom, T., De Schutter, B. (2016). Introduction. In: Optimal Trajectory Planning and Train Scheduling for Urban Rail Transit Systems. Advances in Industrial Control. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30889-0_1
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