Dimensioning windows for railway infrastructure maintenance: Cost efficiency versus traffic impact

The Swedish Transport Administration is introducing a new regime, called maintenance windows, for allocating train free slots reserved for maintenance tasks on the railway infrastructure. In this p ...

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