Capacity and timetable planning, including:
• Run, dwell, headway, and buffer times.
• Stopping patterns, meetings, passes and associations between trains.
• Cyclical and noncyclical timetables, homogenous and heterogenous operations, maintenance works.
• The capacity allocation process, prioritisation criteria.
• Timetable quality, robustness, and how to achieve them.
Analysis of delays and punctuality, including:
• Arrival, departure, dwell, and run time delays.
• The distribution of delays in size, space, and time.
• Valuation of delay time, quality/delay fees, and recourse.
• Punctuality, regularity, and influencing factors.
• Measurement and evaluation systems, quality assessment and improvement.