Scheduling preventive railway maintenance activities

Gabriella Budai-Balke, Dennis Huisman () and Rommert Dekker

No EI 2004-41, Econometric Institute Research Papers from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Econometric Institute

Abstract: A railway system needs a substantial amount of maintenance. To prevent unexpected breakdowns as much as possible, preventive maintenance is required. In this paper we discuss the Preventive Maintenance Scheduling Problem (PMSP), where (short) routine activities and (long) unique projects have to be scheduled in a certain period. To reduce costs and inconvenience for the travellers and operators, these activities have to be scheduled as much as possible together. We present a mathematical formulation for this problem and some greedy heuristics to solve it fast. Moreover, we compare the performance of these heuristics with the optimal solution using some randomly generated instances.

Keywords: heuristics; maintenance; optimization; rail transport; scheduling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-09-22
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