Locomotive assignment problem: integrating the strategic, tactical and operational level aspects

• Published in: Annals of operations research Vol. 315; no. 2; pp. 867 - 898
• Main Authors: Premkumar, Prashant, Ram Kumar, P. N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.08.2022; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algorithms; Analysis; Assignment problem; Business and Management; Combinatorics; Constraint modelling; Decision making; Heuristic; Locomotives; Lower bounds; Management; Methods; Minimum cost; Operations research; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Production management; Rail transportation; Railroads; Railway networks; Railways; S.I. : Business Analytics and Operations Research; Theory of Computation; Trains; India; Lower bounds; Routing; Mixed integer programming; Scheduling; Locomotive assignment problem; Dijkstra’s algorithm

Over the past couple of centuries, with the increase in the significance of the railways to the economy, the complexity of the railway network and consequently the decision making involved and the number of problems faced has only increased. Among the host of problems in railways management, one of...