Railway infrastructure saturation using Constraint Programming approach
Joaquín Rodríguez, Xavier Delorme, Xavier Gandibleux · Annual Conference on Computers · 2002
Railway infrastructure managers must deal with new operators' requests for capacity. Planning the construction of new infrastructure or rehabilitation of existing infrastructure must be carried out very carefully due to the huge investment needed. This paper examines a Constraint Programming (CP) model of the railway infrastructure saturation problem. The CP model is applied to assess the capacity of a junction or a station. Two resolution algorithms have been developed and combined to be applied to an actual case study.