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Reinforcement Learning Based Robust Railway Timetabling to Resolve Robustness Vulnerabilities
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Transport planning.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6479-5645
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Transport planning.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2141-0389
Monash University, Department of Data Science and AI, Australia.
2023 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Railway timetables have an important role in efficient and punctual railway operations. In particular, the robustness of the timetable has a direct impact on the traffic's punctuality. To evaluate the robustness of a timetable, simulation is commonly used. A simulation study may indicate that some trains are too sensitive against minor delays, which may lead to that they fall out of their planned channel of operations (defined by their surrounding trains). We define this as robustness vulnerabilities of the timetable. The work explores reinforcement learning (RL) as a method to resolve timetable robustness vulnerabilities. We formulate a RL-based model for the robust railway timetabling problem and will explore different RL algorithms and compare with timetables generated using optimization-based methods from our previous work [1, 2]. The models are evaluated using microscopic RailSys simulation for the traffic in the westbound direction of the Swedish Western Main Line. The results are expected to provide better support for robust railway timetabling in practice.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2023.
Keywords [en]
Scheduling, Robust timetabling, Railroad, Reinforcement learning, Punctuality, Simulation, Train timetabling.
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Transport Systems and Logistics
Research subject
Transport Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-336542OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-336542DiVA, id: diva2:1796715
Conference
The 4th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Railways (AI4RAILS 2023), co-located with the International Conference on Optimization and Decision Science (ODS 2023)
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TrenOp, Transport Research Environment with Novel Perspectives
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QC 20230927

Available from: 2023-09-13 Created: 2023-09-13 Last updated: 2023-09-27Bibliographically approved

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