A one-day workshop on "Suburban Rail Operations Planning" was conducted on 21st June 2019 at VMCC, IIT Bombay. The workshop was attended by Railway personnel from Central, Western, South Central, Southern, South Eastern and Eastern Railways and also Delhi and Bengaluru Metro Corporation, apart from students & faculty of IIT Bombay
The workshop addressed various technical issues and proposed planning tools that can be used to systematically add services to existing timetables, to validate timetables against operational constraints and to generate new timetable options afresh, if desired. The tools based on spreadsheets, Python and commercially available software or customized open source solutions were used. Concepts were demonstrated with detailed case studies on the Mumbai suburban system, but the methods used can be deployed for any suburban/metro systems.
The workshop was coordiated by Prof. Narayan Ranagraj and Prof. Madhu Belur (EE), IIT Bombay.
For details, visit the link: https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~belur/railways/workshop/