Satisfied railway flow route problem integrated with ideal route and real trajectory information

Transportation enterprises have started to pay more attention to the vast amount of historical operational data. In this paper, real route information is extracted from the freight car trajectory data and a satisfied route is proposed based on this information. The satisfied route not only can reduce the travel cost but also conform to the actual transportation situation. A solution framework driven by trajectory data is developed to obtain the satisfied route. A case study associated with the Chinese railway is used to verify the model and the solution framework proposed in this paper.