IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/inm/ortrsc/v39y2005i2p261-272.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Shunting of Passenger Train Units in a Railway Station

Author

Listed:
  • Richard Freling

    (Erasmus Center for Optimization in Public Transport (ECOPT), Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

  • Ramon M. Lentink

    (Erasmus Center for Optimization in Public Transport (ECOPT), Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

  • Leo G. Kroon

    (Erasmus Center for Optimization in Public Transport (ECOPT), Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and NS Reizigers, Department of Logistics, The Netherlands)

  • Dennis Huisman

    (Erasmus Center for Optimization in Public Transport (ECOPT), Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P. O. Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and NS Reizigers, Department of Logistics, The Netherlands)

Abstract

In this paper we introduce the problem of shunting passenger train units in a railway station. Shunting occurs whenever train units are temporarily not needed to operate a given timetable. We discuss several aspects of this problem and focus on two subproblems. We propose mathematical models for the problem and both subproblems, one of which is solved with a solution method based on column generation. Furthermore, we introduce a new efficient and speedy solution technique for pricing problems in column generation algorithms. Finally, we present computational results based on real-life instances from Netherlands Railways.

Suggested Citation

  • Richard Freling & Ramon M. Lentink & Leo G. Kroon & Dennis Huisman, 2005. "Shunting of Passenger Train Units in a Railway Station," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 39(2), pages 261-272, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:39:y:2005:i:2:p:261-272
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1030.0076
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/trsc.1030.0076
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1287/trsc.1030.0076?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. He, Shiwei & Song, Rui & Chaudhry, Sohail S., 2000. "Fuzzy dispatching model and genetic algorithms for railyards operations," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 124(2), pages 307-331, July.
    2. Jean-François Cordeau & Paolo Toth & Daniele Vigo, 1998. "A Survey of Optimization Models for Train Routing and Scheduling," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 32(4), pages 380-404, November.
    3. Bunte, F.H.J. & Maks, J.A.H., 1997. "Contestability and sunk costs: an analysis of product R+D competition," Research Memorandum 015, Maastricht University, Maastricht Research School of Economics of Technology and Organization (METEOR).
    4. Lingaya, Norbert & Cordeau, Jean-Françcois & Desaulniers, Guy & Desrosiers, Jacques & Soumis, Françcois, 2002. "Operational car assignment at VIA Rail Canada," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 36(9), pages 755-778, November.
    5. Giorgio Gallo & Federico Di Miele, 2001. "Dispatching Buses in Parking Depots," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 35(3), pages 322-330, August.
    6. Kroon, Leo G. & Edwin Romeijn, H. & Zwaneveld, Peter J., 1997. "Routing trains through railway stations: complexity issues," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 98(3), pages 485-498, May.
    7. Thomas Winter & Uwe Zimmermann, 2000. "Real-time dispatch of trams in storage yards," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 96(1), pages 287-315, November.
    8. Cynthia Barnhart & Ellis L. Johnson & George L. Nemhauser & Martin W. P. Savelsbergh & Pamela H. Vance, 1998. "Branch-and-Price: Column Generation for Solving Huge Integer Programs," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 46(3), pages 316-329, June.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. David Boywitz & Nils Boysen & Dirk Briskorn, 2016. "Resequencing with parallel queues to minimize the maximum number of items in the overflow area," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 63(5), pages 401-415, August.
    2. Boysen, Nils & Fliedner, Malte & Jaehn, Florian & Pesch, Erwin, 2012. "Shunting yard operations: Theoretical aspects and applications," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 220(1), pages 1-14.
    3. Budai-Balke, G. & Maróti, G. & Dekker, R. & Huisman, D. & Kroon, L.G., 2007. "Re-scheduling in railways: the rolling stock balancing problem," Econometric Institute Research Papers EI 2007-21, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Econometric Institute.
    4. Boysen, Nils & Emde, Simon, 2016. "The parallel stack loading problem to minimize blockages," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 249(2), pages 618-627.
    5. Mohamed Hamdouni & Guy Desaulniers & Odile Marcotte & François Soumis & Marianne van Putten, 2006. "Dispatching Buses in a Depot Using Block Patterns," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 40(3), pages 364-377, August.
    6. Hamdouni, Mohamed & Soumis, Francois & Desaulniers, Guy, 2007. "Parking buses in a depot with stochastic arrival times," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 183(2), pages 502-515, December.
    7. Mirsad Buljubašić & Michel Vasquez & Haris Gavranović, 2018. "Two-phase heuristic for SNCF rolling stock problem," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 271(2), pages 1107-1129, December.
    8. Martin Josef Geiger & Sandra Huber & Sebastian Langton & Marius Leschik & Christian Lindorf & Ulrich Tüshaus, 2018. "Multi-attribute assignment of trains to departures in rolling stock management," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 271(2), pages 1131-1163, December.
    9. Kroon, L.G. & Lentink, R.M. & Schrijver, A., 2006. "Shunting of Passenger Train Units: an Integrated Approach," ERIM Report Series Research in Management ERS-2006-068-LIS, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
    10. Christian Artigues & Eric Bourreau & Vincent Jost & Safia Kedad-Sidhoum & François Ramond, 2018. "Trains do not vanish: the ROADEF/EURO challenge 2014," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 271(2), pages 1091-1105, December.
    11. Jiaxi Wang & Manfred Gronalt & Yan Sun, 2017. "A two-stage approach to the depot shunting driver assignment problem with workload balance considerations," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(7), pages 1-23, July.
    12. Lehnfeld, Jana & Knust, Sigrid, 2014. "Loading, unloading and premarshalling of stacks in storage areas: Survey and classification," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 239(2), pages 297-312.
    13. Leo G. Kroon & Ramon M. Lentink & Alexander Schrijver, 2008. "Shunting of Passenger Train Units: An Integrated Approach," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 42(4), pages 436-449, November.
    14. Nils Boysen & Florian Jaehn & Erwin Pesch, 2011. "Scheduling Freight Trains in Rail-Rail Transshipment Yards," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 45(2), pages 199-211, May.
    15. Nils Boysen & Malte Fliedner & Florian Jaehn & Erwin Pesch, 2013. "A Survey on Container Processing in Railway Yards," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 47(3), pages 312-329, August.
    16. Lin, Boliang & Shen, Yaoming & Wang, Zhongkai & Ni, Shaoquan & Zhao, Yinan, 2023. "An iterative improvement approach for high-speed train maintenance scheduling," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 173(C), pages 292-312.
    17. Haahr, J.T. & Lusby, R.M. & Wagenaar, J.C., 2015. "A Comparison of Optimization Methods for Solving the Depot Matching and Parking Problem," ERIM Report Series Research in Management ERS-2015-013-LIS, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
    18. Li Lei & Raymond S K Kwan & Zhiyuan Lin & Pedro J Copado-Mendez, 2022. "Resolution of coupling order and station level constraints in train unit scheduling," Public Transport, Springer, vol. 14(1), pages 27-61, March.
    19. Haahr, Jørgen Thorlund & Lusby, Richard M. & Wagenaar, Joris Camiel, 2017. "Optimization methods for the Train Unit Shunting Problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 262(3), pages 981-995.
    20. Haahr, Jørgen & Lusby, Richard M., 2017. "Integrating rolling stock scheduling with train unit shunting," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 259(2), pages 452-468.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Lentink, R.M. & Fioole, P-J. & Kroon, L.G. & van 't Woudt, C., 2003. "Applying Operations Research techniques to planning of train shunting," ERIM Report Series Research in Management ERS-2003-094-LIS, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
    2. Kroon, L.G. & Lentink, R.M. & Schrijver, A., 2006. "Shunting of Passenger Train Units: an Integrated Approach," ERIM Report Series Research in Management ERS-2006-068-LIS, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
    3. Dennis Huisman & Leo G. Kroon & Ramon M. Lentink & Michiel J. C. M. Vromans, 2005. "Operations Research in passenger railway transportation," Statistica Neerlandica, Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research, vol. 59(4), pages 467-497, November.
    4. Leo G. Kroon & Ramon M. Lentink & Alexander Schrijver, 2008. "Shunting of Passenger Train Units: An Integrated Approach," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 42(4), pages 436-449, November.
    5. Flamini, Marta & Pacciarelli, Dario, 2008. "Real time management of a metro rail terminus," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 189(3), pages 746-761, September.
    6. Freling, R. & Lentink, R.M. & Kroon, L.G. & Huisman, D., 2002. "Shunting of Passenger Train Units in a Railway Station," ERIM Report Series Research in Management ERS-2002-74-LIS, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
    7. Cacchiani, Valentina & Furini, Fabio & Kidd, Martin Philip, 2016. "Approaches to a real-world Train Timetabling Problem in a railway node," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 97-110.
    8. Nils Boysen & Florian Jaehn & Erwin Pesch, 2011. "Scheduling Freight Trains in Rail-Rail Transshipment Yards," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 45(2), pages 199-211, May.
    9. Boysen, Nils & Fliedner, Malte & Jaehn, Florian & Pesch, Erwin, 2012. "Shunting yard operations: Theoretical aspects and applications," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 220(1), pages 1-14.
    10. Belgacem Bouzaiene-Ayari & Clark Cheng & Sourav Das & Ricardo Fiorillo & Warren B. Powell, 2016. "From Single Commodity to Multiattribute Models for Locomotive Optimization: A Comparison of Optimal Integer Programming and Approximate Dynamic Programming," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 50(2), pages 366-389, May.
    11. Hamdouni, Mohamed & Soumis, Francois & Desaulniers, Guy, 2007. "Parking buses in a depot with stochastic arrival times," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 183(2), pages 502-515, December.
    12. Alberto Caprara & Laura Galli & Paolo Toth, 2011. "Solution of the Train Platforming Problem," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 45(2), pages 246-257, May.
    13. Carey, Malachy & Crawford, Ivan, 2007. "Scheduling trains on a network of busy complex stations," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 41(2), pages 159-178, February.
    14. Zhang, Yongxiang & Peng, Qiyuan & Yao, Yu & Zhang, Xin & Zhou, Xuesong, 2019. "Solving cyclic train timetabling problem through model reformulation: Extended time-space network construct and Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers methods," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 128(C), pages 344-379.
    15. Nikola Bešinović & Rob M. P. Goverde, 2019. "Stable and robust train routing in station areas with balanced infrastructure capacity occupation," Public Transport, Springer, vol. 11(2), pages 211-236, August.
    16. Andrea D'Ariano & Francesco Corman & Dario Pacciarelli & Marco Pranzo, 2008. "Reordering and Local Rerouting Strategies to Manage Train Traffic in Real Time," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 42(4), pages 405-419, November.
    17. Twan Dollevoet & Dennis Huisman & Leo Kroon & Marie Schmidt & Anita Schöbel, 2015. "Delay Management Including Capacities of Stations," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 49(2), pages 185-203, May.
    18. Ruf, Moritz & Cordeau, Jean-François, 2021. "Adaptive large neighborhood search for integrated planning in railroad classification yards," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 150(C), pages 26-51.
    19. Haahr, Jørgen & Lusby, Richard M., 2017. "Integrating rolling stock scheduling with train unit shunting," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 259(2), pages 452-468.
    20. Shi, Tie & Zhou, Xuesong, 2015. "A mixed integer programming model for optimizing multi-level operations process in railroad yards," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 80(C), pages 19-39.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:39:y:2005:i:2:p:261-272. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Asher (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/inforea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.