Welcome to the website of the Railway Applications Section (RAS). Most of the content can be found in the menus above. Note that some content, such as presentations from past meetings, requires membership in RAS and that you are logged in to INFORMS Connect with your INFORMS user ID.
Thanks for a GREAT 2018 Annual Meeting!
Over the next month we will post photos and news from the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Houston, and you can read our 2018 newsletter HERE.
Meet our new officers for 2019! They are:
Chair: Shantih Spanton, CSX
Vice Chair: Nathaniel Richmond, BNSF
Secretary: Steve Tyber, GE Transportation
Treasurer: Yashar Khayati, BNSF
PR Officer: Qing He, University at Buffalo
RAS Problem Solving Competition Announcement
Technical University of Denmark Wins First Place
Full Results
First Prize: Forecasting Train Delays in the Netherlands using Neural Networks
Technical University of Denmark
Second Place: Predicting Near-Term Train Schedule Performance and Delay Using Bi-Level Random Forests
University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana
Third Place: A Railway Delay Prediction Model Based on Non-Homogeneous Markov Chains
Texas A&M / North Carolina State
2018 Student Paper Award Announcement
The winners of the 2018 Railway Applications Section Student Paper Award are:
First Prize: Fei Yan; Nikola Bešinović; Rob M.P. Goverde, “Multi-objective Periodic Railway Timetabling”, Technical University of Delft
Second Prize: Rolf N. van Lieshout; Paul C. Bouman; Dennis Huisman, “Determining and Evaluating Alternative Line Plans in (Near) Out-of-Control Situations”, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Third Prize: Manuel Fuentes; Luis Cadarso; Ángel Marín, “A Hybrid Model for Robust Crew Scheduling in Rapid Transit Networks”, Technical University of Madrid
The winners will present their research at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, 4 November 2018, in Phoenix, Arizona.
For further details, see the Student Paper Award page.
