Print Email Facebook Twitter Optimal scheduling of track maintenance activities for railway networks⁎ Title Optimal scheduling of track maintenance activities for railway networks⁎ Author Su, Z. (TU Delft Team Bart De Schutter) De Schutter, B.H.K. (TU Delft Team Bart De Schutter) Date 2018 Abstract We consider optimal scheduling of track maintenance activities for a railway network divided into sections. The goal is to find an optimal time schedule for the maintenance activities and optimal routes for the maintenance crew (including all necessary equipment and technicians) that minimize the total setup costs and the travel costs over the whole planning horizon. The maintenance time budget, which can be the same, different, or flexible for each period, and the minimum time to maintain a section are also taken into account. We recast the track maintenance scheduling problem with three different settings as three variants of the Capacitated Arc Routing Problem with Fixed cost (CARPF), which are solved by transforming them into three node routing problems. The proposed approach is demonstrated using a case study of a part of the Dutch regional network. Subject arc routing problemlogisticsmaintenancerailway infrastructurescheduling To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7b04bf33-16fe-4ab1-befa-dfb55f3bc9d5 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2018.07.063 ISSN 2405-8963 Source IFAC-PapersOnLine, 51 (9), 386-391 Event 15th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems, 2018-06-06 → 2018-06-08, Savona, Italy Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2018 Z. Su, B.H.K. De Schutter Files PDF 1_s2.0_S2405896318307869_main.pdf 565.7 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7b04bf33-16fe-4ab1-befa-dfb55f3bc9d5/datastream/OBJ/view