Integrated optimization of train scheduling and maintenance planning on high-speed railway corridors

Chuntian Zhang, Yuan Gao, Lixing Yang, Uday Kumar and Ziyou Gao

Omega, 2019, vol. 87, issue C, 86-104

Abstract: Regular maintenances on high-speed railway facilities are performed in every night in China, and during regular maintenances, high-speed railway is not available for the sunset-departure and sunrise-arrival trains (SDSA-trains). In order to reduce the influence of regular maintenances on SDSA-trains, three operation modes are used in practice, which mainly consist of route selections between high-speed railway and normal-speed railway. In this paper, we use some linearization techniques to formulate a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model to identify the operation modes and the timetable of SDSA-trains, by integrating the time window selection of regular maintenances on high-speed railways. The objective of the model is to minimize the total travel time of SDSA-trains. In the formulation of the model, we introduce state variables to indicate whether a train is running on high-speed railway or not, which makes it conveniently express the selection of operation modes. Based on the real data of Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed and normal-speed railway corridors in China, numerical experiments are carried out to test the proposed model and optimization method.

Keywords: Train scheduling; Maintenance planning; High-speed railway; Sunset-departure and sunrise-arrival train (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2018.08.005

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