A Heuristic for Routing and Scheduling Freight Trains in a Passenger Rail Network
The authors discuss routing and scheduling freight trains in a rail network where freight train movements can be inserted on demand or at any time, so that there is no disruption to a strict passenger train schedule. Indian Railways is an example of such a system. A 0-1 mixed integer program formula is presented for freight train routing and scheduling to minimize freight train travel time in a passenger rail network, for which a lower bound is developed. The authors propose identifying routes and schedules for individual freight trains in a passenger rail network using a hierarchical permutation heuristic. Proposals for identifying the best train schedule hierarchy are given through a number of dispatching rules. Using real data to computationally report solutions to various problems is given.
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Authors:
- Godwin, T
- Gopalan, Ram
- Narendran, T T
- Publication Date: 2007
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 101-133
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Serial:
- International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management
- Volume: 3
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Limited
- ISSN: 1742-7967
- EISSN: 1742-7945
- Serial URL: http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijlsm
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Freight and passenger services; Heuristic methods; Railroads; Routes and routing; Schedules and scheduling; Service disruption
- Identifier Terms: Indian Railways
- Uncontrolled Terms: Disruptions; Schedule disruption
- Geographic Terms: India
- Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Railroads;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01046896
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 30 2007 7:59AM