Liebchen, ChristianMöhring, Rolf H.2021-12-172021-12-1720022197-8085https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/15467http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-14240In the overwhelming majority of public transportation companies, designing a periodic timetable is even nowadays largely performed manually. Software tools only support the planners in evaluating a periodic timetable, or by letting them comfortably shift sets of trips by some minutes, but they rarely use optimization methods. One of the main arguments against optimization is that there is no clear objective in practice, but that many criteria such as amount of rolling stock required, average passenger changing time, average speed of the trains, and the number of cross-wise correspondences have to be considered.en510 Mathematiktraffic problemscombinatorial optimizationcase-oriented studiesResearch Paper