At present the calculation process to determine travel routes and times for railway operations, as well as to find available slots, is done manually by the network provider and is very time intensive. Consequently the netwwork provider cannot react as flexibly as necessary on short-term demand of slots. Therefore the network provider is mainly interested in a reservation system allowing an easy aud fast planning and marketing of free railway slots as well as in higher yields/revenues of slot assignments. In future the planning and booking of a railway slot must be supported by an information system which takes the aforementioned aspects into consideration. In the following paper, a concept for a future European railway slot management system for slot-marketing, allowing reduced processing times for the assignment of slots as well as providing demand oriented pricing strategies, is presented. For the covering abstract see ITRD E114174.
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