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A heuristic for real-time crew rescheduling during small disruptions

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  • Thijs Verhaegh

    (Bright Cape Advanced Analytics)

  • Dennis Huisman

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam
    Netherlands Railways)

  • Pieter-Jan Fioole

    (Netherlands Railways)

  • Juan C. Vera

    (Tilburg University)

Abstract

Due to unforeseen problems, disruptions occur in passenger railway operations. Proper real-time crew management is needed to prevent disruptions to spread over space and time. Netherlands Railways has algorithmic support from a solver to obtain good crew rescheduling solutions during big disruptions. However, small disruptions are still manually solved by human dispatchers who have limited solving capacity. In this paper the rescheduling for crews during small disruptions is modeled as inserting an uncovered task in a feasible set of duties. The problem is solved as an iterative-deepening depth-first search in a tree. To reduce computation time, we use several ideas to prune unpromising parts of the tree. We have tested the heuristic on about 5000 test instances obtained from real-world data. These tests show that the heuristic delivers good and desirable rescheduling solutions within at most 2 s.

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  • Thijs Verhaegh & Dennis Huisman & Pieter-Jan Fioole & Juan C. Vera, 2017. "A heuristic for real-time crew rescheduling during small disruptions," Public Transport, Springer, vol. 9(1), pages 325-342, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:pubtra:v:9:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1007_s12469-017-0155-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s12469-017-0155-1
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    1. Lucas P. Veelenturf & Daniel Potthoff & Dennis Huisman & Leo G. Kroon & Gábor Maróti & Albert P. M. Wagelmans, 2016. "A Quasi-Robust Optimization Approach for Crew Rescheduling," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 50(1), pages 204-215, February.
    2. Daniel Potthoff & Dennis Huisman & Guy Desaulniers, 2010. "Column Generation with Dynamic Duty Selection for Railway Crew Rescheduling," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 44(4), pages 493-505, November.
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