Railway timetabling related efforts at IIT Bombay

This page contains information about railway timetabling and capacity utilization/simulator tools that have been developed under close supervision by Prof. Narayan Rangaraj and under Madhu N. Belur. The links below contain more detailed information.

• Mixed-traffic railway *single-route section* capacity simulator tool

• Mixed-traffic railway *network-scheduler* tool

• Suburban rail network timetabling

• Simulation analysis of the ALD division (part of RITES Ltd study)

• Junction simulation

• Crew management

• Multiple Line Rail Section Analysis: Tiruvallur-Arakkonam case study

• System Headway Study for Suburban Services (WR, Mumbai)

Select publications and presentations by our group regarding metro-rail/suburban/railways

• Dailyizing (ppt: 2023)

• Network scheduler (ppt: 2023)

• Crew scheduling for coaching trains (journal: paper: 2024)

• Rationalized timetabling using a simulation tool (INFORMS Journal)(paper: 2022)

• Freight path generation: a heuristic approach (paper: 2022)

• Crew planning for freight services (paper: 2022)

• Crew planning for suburban rail operations (paper: 2019)

• Integrated timetabling for section and suburban railways: performance objectives (paper: 2019)

• Concept-note for railway timetabling (report: Niti-Aayog sponsored project: 2018)

Contact persons

Prof. Narayan Rangaraj,
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR),
IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076
narayan.rangaraj[AT]iitb.ac.in

and/or:

Prof. Madhu N. Belur,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076
belur[AT]iitb.ac.in

Last modified: 21st February 2024