TY - JOUR
T1 - The Maintenance Location Choice Problem for railway rolling stock
AU - Zomer, Jordi
AU - Bešinović, Nikola
AU - de Weerdt, Mathijs M.
AU - Goverde, Rob M.P.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Due to increasing railway use, the capacity at railway yards and maintenance locations is becoming limiting to accommodate existing rolling stock. To reduce capacity issues at maintenance locations during nighttime, railway undertakings consider performing more daytime maintenance, but the choice at which locations personnel needs to be stationed for daytime maintenance is not straightforward. Among other things, it depends on the planned rolling stock circulation and the maintenance activities that need to be performed. This paper presents the Maintenance Location Choice Problem (MLCP) and provides a Mixed Integer Linear Programming model for this problem. The model demonstrates that for a representative rolling stock circulation from The Netherlands Railways a substantial amount of maintenance activities can be performed during daytime. Also, it is shown that the location choice delivered by the model is robust under various time horizons and rolling stock circulations. Moreover, the running time for optimizing the model is considered acceptable for planning purposes.
AB - Due to increasing railway use, the capacity at railway yards and maintenance locations is becoming limiting to accommodate existing rolling stock. To reduce capacity issues at maintenance locations during nighttime, railway undertakings consider performing more daytime maintenance, but the choice at which locations personnel needs to be stationed for daytime maintenance is not straightforward. Among other things, it depends on the planned rolling stock circulation and the maintenance activities that need to be performed. This paper presents the Maintenance Location Choice Problem (MLCP) and provides a Mixed Integer Linear Programming model for this problem. The model demonstrates that for a representative rolling stock circulation from The Netherlands Railways a substantial amount of maintenance activities can be performed during daytime. Also, it is shown that the location choice delivered by the model is robust under various time horizons and rolling stock circulations. Moreover, the running time for optimizing the model is considered acceptable for planning purposes.
KW - Railway planning
KW - Maintenance
KW - Rolling stock
KW - Location choice
KW - Optimization
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrtpm.2021.100268
DO - 10.1016/j.jrtpm.2021.100268
M3 - Article
SN - 2210-9706
VL - 20
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management
JF - Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management
M1 - 100268
ER -