Title
A heuristic for real-time crew rescheduling during small disruptions.
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s12469-017-0155-1
Public Transport
Keywords
Field
DocType
Crew rescheduling, Depth-first iterative-deepening, Heuristic, Railway optimization, Real-time rescheduling
Heuristic,Crew,Operations research,Feasible region,Engineering,Solver,Operations management,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
1-2
1613-7159
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thijs Verhaegh110.34
Dennis Huisman232425.82
Pieter-jan Fioole3795.20
Juan C. Vera4507.98