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

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

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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.

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  • Zhang, Chuntian & Gao, Yuan & Yang, Lixing & Kumar, Uday & Gao, Ziyou, 2019. "Integrated optimization of train scheduling and maintenance planning on high-speed railway corridors," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 87(C), pages 86-104.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jomega:v:87:y:2019:i:c:p:86-104
    DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2018.08.005
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