Integrated freight car routing and train scheduling

Abstract Rail freight transportation is involved with highly complex logistical processes and requires a lot of resources such as locomotives or wagons. Thus, cost-efficient strategies for routing cars in cargo network are great interest railway companies. When it comes to single wagon load traffic, trains usually formed by collecting individual into batches at shunting yards, order transport them jointly their destinations. The problem finding optimal routes schedules typically solved two steps: (i) determining the solving Single-freight car (), (ii) deciding on time train scheduling (). Since departure arrival times, well interdependent, one aims solve simultaneously. For smooth convenient operational many companies apply concept matrix. This matrix defines unique between all yards that used shipments. In this work, we present an integrated mathematical model based discretization, solves enforces concept. To best our knowledge, first work combines three aspects. approach tailored Cargo Austria’s (RCA) needs, incorporating capacities, yard restrictions regarding travel times. We perform extensive computational study real-world data provided RCA. Besides performance analyze utilization trains, waiting times cars, number processes.