Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9663610 | European Journal of Operational Research | 2005 | 20 Pages |
Abstract
This paper is concerned with a double-track train scheduling problem for planning applications with multiple objectives. Focusing on a high-speed passenger rail line in an existing network, the problem is to minimize both (1) the expected waiting times for high-speed trains and (2) the total travel times of high-speed and medium-speed trains. By applying two practical priority rules, the problem with the second criterion is decomposed and formulated as a series of multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling problems in order to explicitly model acceleration and deceleration times. A branch-and-bound algorithm with effective dominance rules is developed to generate Pareto solutions for the bicriteria scheduling problem, and a beam search algorithm with utility evaluation rules is used to construct a representative set of non-dominated solutions. A case study based on Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railroad in China illustrates the methodology and compares the performance of the proposed algorithms.
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Authors
Xuesong Zhou, Ming Zhong,