On April 14, 2008, in Baltimore, Maryland, Netherlands Railways was awarded the 2008 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences. The railway changed their entire timetable, originally created in 1970, to better meet the demands of the current Dutch society.  From another article on the INFORMS site, we learned about the solution that was created, as well as the value of the solution.

Operations researchers at CWI and…