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Freight Railroad Service Network Design

In: Network Design with Applications to Transportation and Logistics

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  • Mervat Chouman

    (Effat University)

  • Teodor Gabriel Crainic

    (Université du Québec à Montréal)

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Rail transportation provides economically-priced, environmentally-friendly, and timely freight transportation services at the regional, national, and international levels. To achieve this performance, railroads operate mostly according to a double consolidation policy, as cars are grouped into blocks, which are grouped into trains, and set up tactical operations plans specifying the train services and schedules to operate, the blocks to build at each terminal, the routing of blocks and cars, and the resource assignment to support these operations. Tactical planning makes up a very complex problem, with many facets and decisions linked in a web of economic, resource utilization, and time-performance objectives, limitations, and trade-offs. Operations Research provides the Service Network Design methodology to build the railroad tactical plan making the most efficient use of the railroad’s resources to achieve its economic and customer-service performance objectives. The chapter reflects this important relation between railroad planning and network design. It focuses on service network design models for railroad tactical planning, targeting both particular activities, such as car blocking and train makeup, and integrated network-wide planning processes.

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  • Mervat Chouman & Teodor Gabriel Crainic, 2021. "Freight Railroad Service Network Design," Springer Books, in: Teodor Gabriel Crainic & Michel Gendreau & Bernard Gendron (ed.), Network Design with Applications to Transportation and Logistics, chapter 0, pages 383-426, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-64018-7_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64018-7_13
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    1. Taherkhani, Gita & Bilegan, Ioana C. & Crainic, Teodor Gabriel & Gendreau, Michel & Rei, Walter, 2022. "Tactical capacity planning in an integrated multi-stakeholder freight transportation system," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
    2. Bilegan, Ioana C. & Crainic, Teodor Gabriel & Wang, Yunfei, 2022. "Scheduled service network design with revenue management considerations and an intermodal barge transportation illustration," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 300(1), pages 164-177.
    3. Hewitt, Mike & Lehuédé, Fabien, 2023. "New formulations for the Scheduled Service Network Design Problem," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 172(C), pages 117-133.
    4. Crainic, Teodor Gabriel & Gendron, Bernard & Akhavan Kazemzadeh, Mohammad Rahim, 2022. "A taxonomy of multilayer network design and a survey of transportation and telecommunication applications," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 303(1), pages 1-13.
    5. Dayarian, Iman & Rocco, Adolfo & Erera, Alan & Savelsbergh, Martin, 2022. "Operations design for high-velocity intra-city package service," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 161(C), pages 150-168.

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