Scheduling of Railway Track Maintenance Activities and Crews

• Published in: The Journal of the Operational Research Society Vol. 49; no. 10; pp. 1026 - 1033
• Main Author: Higgins, A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basingstoke Macmillan Press 01.10.1998; Palgrave; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Case-Oriented Papers; Decision making models; Exact sciences and technology; Ground, air and sea transportation, marine construction; Heuristics; Integer programming; Maintenance costs; Maintenance training; Musical intervals; Objective functions; Railroad maintenance; Railroad trains; Railway networks; Railway transportation and traffic; Repair & maintenance; Scheduling; Studies; Tabu search; Time windows; Transportation planning, management and economics; Australia; Integer programming; Zero one programming; Allocation; Tabu search; Scheduling; Rail transportation; Maintenance; Personnel; Algorithm

Before railway track maintenance crews can undertake any work, the allocation of activities to available time intervals in the train schedule as well as to crews must be undertaken. This paper puts forward a model aimed at determining the best allocation of maintenance activities and crews so as to...