Study of various transportation indicators could be an appropriate criterion in evaluating the performance of the existing railways throughout the globe. This study was carried out to investigate the performance of rolling stock of Iranian railway using productivity analysis. In order to solve the problems, some solutions were provided by productivity management cycle steps. At the first step, ...

A central issue for operators of passenger railways is providing sufficient number of seats for passengers while at the same time minimising operating costs. This is the task of rolling stock planning. Due to the large number of practical, railway specific requirements that a rolling stock plan has to take into account, rolling stock plans are often constructed in a step-by-step manner, taking ...

In passenger railway optimization one of the main goals is to make efficient plans that can accommodate all passengers or, if that is not possible, that minimize the seat shortages. In the planning process, a railway operator tries to match the demand by first selecting an appropriate timetable followed by a matching rolling stock schedule. We focus on the second stage where a rolling stock sch...

This paper addresses the Rolling Stock Rebalancing Problem (RSRP) which arises within a passenger railway operator when the rolling stock has to be rescheduled due to changing circumstances. RSRP is relevant both in the short-term planning stage and in the real-time operations. RSRP has as input a timetable and a rolling stock circulation where the allocation of the rolling stock among the stat...

This paper presents an integer programming formulation for integrating maintenance planning tasks in the railway rolling stock circulation problem. This is a key problem in railway rostering planning that requires to cover a given set of services and maintenance works with a minimum amount of rolling stock units. An additional objective is to limit the number of empty rides. The constraints of ...

This paper provides a highly integrated solution approach for rolling stock planning problems in the context of intercity passenger traffic. The main contributions are a generic hypergraph based mixed integer programming model and an integrated algorithm for the considered rolling stock rotation planning problem. The new developed approach is able to handle a very large set of industrial railwa...

The recordings of the pantograph voltage and current waveforms across Italian and French high speed railway lines (both Autotransformer 2x25 kV 50 Hz systems) are analyzed to estimate some Power Quality indexes: harmonic spectra, harmonic distortion, displacement factor and fundamental component, in various rolling stock operating conditions. These indexes, that define the electrical interface ...

This paper focuses on the railway rolling stock circulation problem in rapid transit networks, in which frequencies are high and distances are relatively short. Although the distances are not very large, service times are high due to the large number of intermediate stops required to allow proper passenger flow. The main complicating issue is the fact that the available capacity at depot statio...

This paper addresses the railway rolling stock circulation problem. Given the departure and arrival times as well as the expected numbers of passengers, we have to assign the rolling stock to the timetable services. We consider several objective criteria that are related to operational costs, service quality and reliability of the railway system. Our model is an extension of an existing rolling...