On the fragility of a train timetable – 2025 Best Paper Award

Europe’s Rail JU FP1-MOTIONAL project, the Norwegian Railway Directorate’s affiliated unit SINTEF and European Union – Next Generation EU’s COSMO project   have jointly supported a research which introduces the ‘fragility as a new practical tool ‘ to analyse train timetables and identify where a primary train delay may generate knock-on delays and support the decision making process to minimise these.  The results of this research have been published in a paper called ‘On the fragility of a train timetable’ (M.L. Tessitore, G. Sartor, M. Samà, et al., 2025) which has received one of the three prestigious 2025 Best Article Awards from Omega: The International Journal of Management Science.

Omega is a leading Level 2 journal in Norway, recognized globally for publishing cutting-edge research in operations research and management science. Securing a publication in Omega is already a significant achievement, but earning its Best Article Award highlights the exceptional quality and impact of this work.

The winning paper competed with other dozens of scientific papers published this year in the Transportation and Logistics section of this prestigious journal.

The editorial board of Omega stated:

It is my great pleasure to inform you that your publication, “On the fragility of a train timetable,” has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2025 Best Article Award. This recognition highlights the potential of your research to influence practice and its contribution to developing effective methods and theories in the field.

Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305048325000672

Award: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/omega/about/highlighted-articles/best-papers-awards-for-2025