In research and practice, public transportation planning is executed in a series of steps, which are often divided into the strategic, the tactical, and the operational planning phase. Timetables are normally designed in the tactical phase, taking into account a given line plan, safety restrictions arising from infrastructural constraints, as well as regularity requirements and bounds on transfer times.

In this paper, however, we propose a timetabling approach that is aimed at decision making in the strategic phase of public transportation planning and to determine an outline of a timetable that is good from the passengers’ perspective. Instead of including explicit synchronization constraints between train runs (as most timetabling models do), we include the adaption time (waiting time at the origin station) in the objective function to ensure regular connections between passengers’ origins and destinations. We model the problem as a mixed integer quadratic program and linearize it. Furthermore we propose a heuristic to generate starting solutions. We illustrate the trade-offs between dwell times and regularity of trains in two case studies based on the Dutch railway network.

在研究和实践中，公共交通规划是通过一系列步骤执行的，通常分为战略，战术和运营规划阶段。时间表通常是在战术阶段设计的，要考虑到给定的线路计划，基础设施限制引起的安全限制以及规律性要求和转移时间范围。

但是，在本文中，我们提出了一种时间表设计方法，旨在在公共交通规划的战略阶段进行决策，并从乘客的角度确定时间表的大纲。我们没有在火车运行之间包含明确的同步约束（就像大多数时间表模型一样），而是在目标函数中包含了适应时间（始发站的等待时间），以确保乘客始发地与目的地之间的定期联系。我们将问题建模为混合整数二次程序并将其线性化。此外，我们提出了一种启发式方法来生成初始解决方案。在两个基于荷兰铁路网络的案例研究中，我们说明了停留时间与列车定期性之间的取舍。