Freight railway operator timetabling and engine scheduling

Lukas Bach, Michel Gendreau and Sanne Wøhlk

European Journal of Operational Research, 2015, vol. 241, issue 2, 309-319

Abstract: In this paper we consider timetable design at a European freight railway operator. The timetable is designed by choosing the time of service for customer unit train demands among a set of discrete points. These discrete points are all found within the a time-window. The objective of the model is to minimize cost while adhering to constraints regarding infrastructure usage, demand coverage, and engine availability. The model is solved by a column generation scheme where feasible engine schedules are designed in a label setting algorithm with time-dependent cost and service times.

Keywords: Freight railway; Timetabling; Branch-and-Price; Transportation; Scheduling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2014.08.036

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