Capacity Optimization for World Cup Railway Stations
The 2018 FIFA World Cup is in Russia, and in preparation for the event, the extensive rail network of the enormous country had to prepare for increased traffic. A railway operator in Russia, conducted an event preparedness assessment involving 31 railway stations across the eleven host cities of: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Sochi, Saransk, Samara, Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, and Yekaterinburg. The project was contracted out to IRTS, a company specializing in the development of transport systems.