Kroon, L.G.; Dekker, R.; Vromans, M.J.C.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2005
Real-time railway operations are subject to stochastic disturbances. However, a railway timetable is a deterministic plan. Thus a timetable should be designed in such a way that it can absorb the stochastic disturbances as well as possible. To that end, a timetable contains buffer times between...