Tactical crew planning in railways

Authors

Güvenç Şahin
Birol Yüceoğlu

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2011

Subject Area

organisation - workforce planning, place - europe, mode - rail, operations - capacity

Keywords

Crew planning; Railway, Capacity planning, Tactical planning, Minimum flow problem

Abstract

Tactical crew capacity planning problem in railways involves finding the minimum number of crews in a region required to operate a predetermined set of train duties satisfying the strict day-off requirement for crew. For the single-region problem, we develop two solution approaches based on a space–time network representation: the sequential approach and the integrated approach. We also study the multi-regional capacity planning problem where we minimize total system-wide capacity by simultaneously considering multiple regions within a neighborhood search algorithm based on our solution methods for the single-region problem. We present the computational study on problem instances from Turkish State Railways.

Rights

Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

Comments

Transportation Research Part E Home Page:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13665545

Recommended Citation

Şahin, G., & Yüceoğlu, B. (2011). Tactical crew planning in railways. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 47, (6), pp. 1221-1243.