Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/288292 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] OR Spectrum [ISSN:] 1436-6304 [Volume:] 42 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 835-862
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
We investigate the impact of coordinating the timetable and the crew schedule in an operational freight railway system. Usually, those problems are solved sequentially—resulting in suboptimal schedules for train drivers due to large idle times between two train rides. We seek to coordinate the timetable and the crew schedule on the operational level by adding flexibility to the timetable. We introduce small time windows that allow to shift entire trains forwards and backwards by discrete time periods. We present a mathematical model and solve it with a column generation heuristic. We test our model on three real datasets of a major European Freight Railway Operator and show that significant reduction in idle time and cost can be achieved.
Subjects: 
Scheduling
Railway crew scheduling
Timetable
Transportation
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Article
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