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Due to increasing railway use, the capacity at railway yards and maintenance locations is becoming limiting. Therefore, the scheduling of rolling stock maintenance and the choice regarding optimal locations to perform maintenance is…
A major step in the planning process of passenger railway operators is the assignment of rolling stock, i.e., train units, to the trips of the timetable. A wide variety of mathematical optimization models have been proposed to support this…
As pressure on the healthcare system increases, patients that require elective surgery experience longer access times to pre- and post-operative appointments and surgery. Hospitals can control their waiting lists by allocating timeslots to…
The resource recharging station location routing problem is a generalization of the location routing problem with sophisticated and critical resource consumption and recharging constraints. Based on a representation of discretized acyclic…
Parking, matching, scheduling, and routing are common problems in train maintenance. In particular, train units are commonly maintained and cleaned at dedicated shunting yards. The planning problem that results from such situations is…
The rolling stock rotation problem with predictive maintenance (RSRP-PdM) involves the assignment of trips to a fleet of vehicles with integrated maintenance scheduling based on the predicted failure probability of the vehicles. These…
Time-dependent (or temporal) properties may arise in many network-based planning problems, particularly in the routing and scheduling of railway track inspection problems. The availability of tracks depends on the train schedules,…
In railway operations, a timetable is established to determine the departure and arrival times for the trains or other rolling stock at the different stations or relevant points inside the rail network or a subset of this network. The…
Railcars, as part of the rolling stock, perform regular transportation tasks with respect to a service level agreement (SLA) and undergo preventive maintenance at regular intervals based on the recommendations of train manufacturers. When…
Classification yards are crucial nodes of railway freight transportation network, which plays a vital role in car flow reclassification and new train formation. Generally, a modern yard covers an expanse of several square kilometers and…
Hydrogen is an energy vector, and one possible way to reduce CO 2 emissions. This paper focuses on a hydrogen transport problem where mobile storage units are moved by trucks between sources to be refilled and destinations to meet demands,…
Decarbonizing long-haul freight requires large-scale deployment of high-power charging infrastructure. This paper studies a multi-period charging station location problem that determines where and when to deploy charging capacity for…
A typical freight railyard at a manufacturing facility contains multiple tracks used for storage, classification, and outbound train assembly. Individual railcar storage locations on classification tracks are often determined before…
In between transportation services, trains are parked and maintained at shunting yards. The conflict-free routing of trains to and on these yards and the scheduling of service and maintenance tasks is known as the train unit shunting and…
Large-scale ride-hailing systems often combine real-time routing at the individual request level with a macroscopic Model Predictive Control (MPC) optimization for dynamic pricing and vehicle relocation. The MPC relies on a demand forecast…
Mobile parcel lockers (MPLs) have been recently introduced by urban logistics operators as a means to reduce traffic congestion and operational cost. Their capability to relocate their position during the day has the potential to improve…
Facility and covering location models are key elements in many decision aid tools in logistics, supply chain design, telecommunications, public infrastructure planning, and many other industrial and public sectors. In many applications, it…
In this article we reframe the classic problem of massive location choice for retail chains, introducing an alternative approach. Traditional methodologies of massive location choice models encounter limitations rooted in assumptions such…
Railroad transportation plays a vital role in the future of sustainable mobility. Besides building new infrastructure, capacity can be improved by modern train control systems, e.g., based on moving blocks. At the same time, there is only…
The Vehicle Fleet Sizing, Positioning and Routing Problem with Stochastic Customers (VFSPRP-SC) consists on pairing strategic decisions of depot positioning and fleet sizing with operational vehicle routing decisions while taking into…