Madhu Belur

Madhu N. Belur is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India (IIT Bombay). Since 2003, he has been with IIT Bombay. His research interests include dissipative dynamical systems, behavioral systems theory, graph theory, open-source application implementation, and the development of railway timetabling and capacity estimation, and simulation tools.

Title of Talk

IITB's involvement in Zero Base Time-Tabling (ZBTT) of Indian Railways

Abstract of Talk

This talk will summarize the contribution by our IIT Bombay's railway scheduling and simulation team towards the national level exercise that Indian Railways took up in 2020: the so-called `Zero Base Time-Tabling' (ZBTT). We had participated for only the so-called GQD (Golden Quadrilateral and the Diagonals) part of the entire Indian Railways' network. The talk will touch upon the key challenges faced in the exercise and the type of techniques/tools that were developed and employed to meet the challenges.