Rolling stock rescheduling in passenger railway transportation using dead-heading trips and adjusted passenger demand

Joris Wagenaar, Leo Kroon and Ioannis Fragkos

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2017, vol. 101, issue C, 140-161

Abstract: In this paper we introduce dead-heading trips and adjusted passenger demand in the Rolling Stock Rescheduling Problem (RSRP). Unfortunately, disruptions disturb passenger railway transportation on a daily basis. Such a disruption causes infeasibilities in the timetable, rolling stock circulation, and crew schedule. We propose a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming model to tackle the RSRP. This formulation includes the possibility of using dead-heading trips (moving empty trains) during, and after, a disruption. Furthermore, passenger flows are included to handle the adjusted passenger demand after the occurrence of a disruption. Many rolling stock rescheduling models are unable to cope with changing passenger demand. In this paper we include passenger demand on a more accurate level in the RSRP. We have tested the model on different cases from Netherlands Railways. The results show that dead-heading trips are useful to reduce the number of cancelled trips and that adjusted passenger demand has a large influence on the rescheduled circulation.

Keywords: Rolling stock rescheduling; Disruption management; Dead-heading trips; Passenger flows; Adjusted passenger demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2017.03.013

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