MINIMISING THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RAIL OPERATIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE

A method aimed at reducing the conflict between trains and track maintenance by short term scheduling of maintenance and required resources is presented in this paper. The risk of delays to the trains and maintenance is incorporated in the process of developing the maintenance timetable. The paper formulates the problem as a binary integer non-linear programming problem by applying the following heuristic techniques: simulated annealing; local search; multiple local search; and tabu search. The most appropriate solution method to solve the short term maintenance scheduling problem as formulated in the paper is found to be the simulated annealing. Sensitivity analysis is conducted to examine the effects of variation in the input parameters, such as different priorities for the railway company.

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• Authors:
  • Lake, M
  • FERREIRA, L
• Conference:
  • Transportation and Traffic Theory in the 21st Century. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory
  • Location: University of South Australia in Adelaide, Austral
  • Date: 2002-7-16 to 2002-7-18
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 63-74

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Annealing; Heuristic methods; Infrastructure; Maintenance management; Rail transit; Railroad tracks; Railroad transportation; Schedule maintenance; Schedules and scheduling; Sensitivity analysis; Short range planning; Tabu search; Timetables
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Public Transportation; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00929729
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0080439268
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 2 2002 12:00AM