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Subway Energy-Efficient Management

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In 2017, Yang et al. [49] presented a comprehensive survey on subway energy-efficient management literature, in which speed control and timetable optimization are two mainly used subway energy-efficient management approaches: the former optimizes the speed profile at inter-stations to minimize the traction energy consumption and the latter synchronizes the accelerating actions and braking actions of trains to maximize regenerative energy absorption. Based on their work, this chapter mainly introduces the state-of-the-art on energy-efficient speed control, energy-efficient timetable optimization and their extensions on integrated optimization, dynamic optimization, and stochastic optimization approaches.

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  1. School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

    Xiang Li

  2. State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

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Li, X., Yang, X. (2020). Literature Overview. In: Subway Energy-Efficient Management. Uncertainty and Operations Research. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7785-7_1

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