Yixiang Yue, Ph.D.

Dr. Yixiang Yue is an Associate Professor and also serves as an Associate Head in the Department of Transportation at School of Traffic & Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University. His research interests include operation research, Management Information Systems, real-time control and optimization for railway system and intermodal transportation systems. He has authored or coauthored more than 30 journal papers, book chapters, and peer viewed conference papers. He is a frequent guest reviewer of a number of famous international journals, such as Transportation Research Part B, Transportation Research Part C, TransportMetrica A, Computer & Industry Engineer, Applied mathematical Modeling, etc.

Dr. Yue has worked as PI or co-PI on more than 50 research projects focused on railway timetabling, real-time dispatching system for railway stations and network, simulation and analysis of train operation, etc., with total research fund exceed 1.5 million US Dollars. Some of his research outcomes and products have been used for the daily railway operations at the China Railway Corporation for many years. He is also the Technical Director of two companies, pursuing cooperation between research and industrialization.

Title:
Experiences and prospects: an overview of some recent simulation methods and applications in China railway industry

Abstract:
China has built the largest scale of high-speed railway network in the world in the last decade and has developed powerful and highly systematic technologies on every aspect of railway industry. This presentation focuses on advanced simulation methods and applications on railway management and operation research. We first discuss about macroscopic simulation methods on railway network analysis, mesoscopic simulation methods on line planning, timetabling and vehicle scheduling, microscopic simulation methods on train operation, station capacity analysis, and then give a simulation-based optimization model for train scheduling and shunting at complex railway stations, which has been tested on real-world instances of all stations at the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway line. Additionally, we will introduce some typical applications on train line planning, timetabling, vehicle scheduling, train dispatching, driving simulator, employee training platform, etc. Finally, we will identify the missing and unsatisfactorily studied problems in order to outline the future research challenges in the field of simulation and application on railway planning and control.

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