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We give below the PowerPoint slides of the talks presented at INFORMS 2009 National Meeting at San Diego, CA. Feel free to share these talks with your colleagues and friends.
Sunday (October 11) RAS Student Paper Session
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Chair: Michael Gorman, University of Dayton |
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Network Design for Freight Rail Transportation
Endong Zhu |
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Exact and Heuristic Algorithms for the Curfew Planning Problem
Ashish K. Nemani |
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SAPI: Statistical Analysis of Propagation of Incidents. A New Approach for Rescheduling
Rodrigo Acuna-Agost |
Sunday (October 11) Planning Models for Rail Transportation
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Chair: Theodore Crainic, University of Montreal |
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Scheduled Service Network Design for Rail Carriers
Endong Zhu |
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Minimizing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Intermodal Freight Transport: An Application to Rail
Tolga Bektas |
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Blocking Studies at CSX Transportation
Cary Helton |
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Managing Locomotives in Freight Rail Transportation Systems
Mervat Chouman |
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Sunday (October 11) Next Generation Car Scheduling Systems I
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Chair: Dharma Acharya, CSX Transportation |
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Next Generation Car Scheduling System at Norfolk Southern
Dan Plonk |
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Current and Future Car Scheduling System at CSX
Cary Helton |
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Capacitated Car Scheduling on a Time/Space Network
Chip Kraft |
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Sunday (October 11) Next Generation Car Scheduling Systems II
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Chair: Dharma Acharya, CSX Transportation |
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Design of Next Generation Car Scheduling Systems - Lessons Learned from Prior System
Carl Van Dyke |
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Current and Future Car Scheduling System at BNSF
John Orrison |
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Computational Results of Dynamic Car Scheduling Algorithms
Ravindra Ahuja |
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Monday (October 12) Practical Application of OR in Rail Industry
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Chair: April Kuo, BNSF Railway |
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Risk-Based Railroad Tank Car Safety Design Optimization
Rapik Saat |
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Optimizing the Routing of Trains with Heterogeneous Traffic
Yung-Cheng Lai |
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Effectively Solving Production Gang Scheduling Problem for Railway Track Maintenance Projects
Gang Li |
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Ballast Procurement and Delivery Optimization
Xiajun (Amy) Pan |
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Freight Tariff Design for Multi-product Multimodal Networks: An MPEC Approach
Hani Mahmassani |
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Monday (October 12) Railway Crew Scheduling
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Chair: Kamalesh Somani, CSX Transportation |
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A Decision Support System for Railroad Crew Planning
Krishna Jha |
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A Simulation-based Crew Planning Model to Improve Crew Utilization and Train Performance
Yudi Pranoto |
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Strategic and Real-time Crew Scheduling Models at CSX Transportation
Kamalesh Somani |
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Monday (October 12) Railroad Capacity Planning Session I
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Chair: Clark Cheng, Norfolk Southern Corp. |
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LineMAX: Line Capacity Analyzer at Norfolk Southern
Vinay Mehendiratta |
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Capacity Planning and the Total Service Integration Process at CSX
Cary Helton |
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Dispatching System Developments at BNSF Railway
Roger Baugher |
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Monday (October 12) Train Scheduling
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Chair: Krishna Jha, Innovative Scheduling |
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A Multi-stage, Hybrid Model for Train Schedule Optimization
Clark Cheng |
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Implementing A Comprehensive Train Planning Model Results
Cary Helton |
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A Genetic Algorithm Procedure to Solve the Railway Routing and Scheduling Problem
Pavankumar Murali |
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Tuesday (October 13) Joint Session RAS/TAL
Recent Advances in Transportation Planning System
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Chair: Ravindra Ahuja, Innovative Scheduling |
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New Algorithmic Approaches to Solve Curfew Planning Problem
Ashish Nemani, Suat Bog |
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A Simulation-based Decision Support System for Railroad Terminal Capacity Planning
Edward Lin |
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Multi-year Installation Design of Railroad Wayside Defect Detection Installations
Fan Peng |
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