Chapter1: Simulation of Rail Operations -- Chapter2: Capacity Assessment in Railway Networks -- Chapter3: Aggregation methods for railway network design based on lifted Benders Cuts -- Chapter4: Freight Train Routing -- Chapter5: Robust Train Timetabling -- Chapter6: Modern Challenges in...

Während über die Autoindustrie viel Literatur erschienen ist, gibt es wenig über die Hersteller von Bahntechnik. Die Erinnerungen des 1938 geborenen Elektroingenieurs und Managers Milz füllen deshalb eine Lücke. Er begann bei der AEG Bahntechnik, die nach dem Konkurs von Daimler-Chrysler...

"Having been state-owned for decades, the railway reform in China confused many people, particularly in terms of its ownership and property rights arrangements. Western literature always prescribes that the best model for railway reform is privatization. China's leadership has also enunciated...

Abstract: Das Buch eröffnet eine neue Perspektive für die entscheidende Phase der deutschen Eisenbahnreform. Die verbreitete Forderung zur „Trennung von Netz und Betrieb“ als notwendige Bedingung für einen Erfolg der Reform wird in Frage gestellt. Alternative Zukunftsmodelle -...

This paper discusses a range of business model innovations taking place out-side the rail transport sector with a direct impact on rail transport. The paper also discusses business model innovations that may have been developed elsewhere but could be transferred to the rail transport sector. The...

The paper asks how the modal shift from road to rail in the freight sector is sup-ported by institutional change. Following North (1990), institutions are understood as the "rules of the game" in the rail freight sector. Based on the literature on institutional change, four different...