Jinyi Pan

Profile

I hold a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Transportation from Southwest Jiaotong University, both focusing on railway planning and management. My undergraduate dissertation analysed the impact of arrival-departure track utilisation on train headways, whilst my Master's research investigated train headways in virtual coupling systems and train rescheduling under disruptions. During my PhD, I participated in a five-month project on Automate and Optimise Freight Train Planning (https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/directories0/dir-record/research-projects/2185/automate-and-optimise-freight-train-planning), sponsored by the UK Department for Transport and Connected Places Catapult. My research seeks to apply optimisation methods to problems in railway safety, efficiency, and robustness.

Research interests

My current research interests lie in railway scheduling and timetabling optimisation problems that support operational decision-making:

• Train insertion approach under capacity and operational constraints
• Train rescheduling under major disruptions
• Freight resource scheduling, including wagon and locomotive circulation planning

I am particularly interested in developing methods that support practical railway planning decisions, and in understanding real-world operational practices and constraints. My research focuses on mathematical programming and decomposition-based algorithms. I am also interested in optimisation under uncertainty, incorporating stochastic and robust approaches, as a potential direction for future research.

Qualifications

• BEng. Transportation, Southwest Jiaotong University
• MSc. Transportation Planning and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University