Integrated Service Network Design for Rail Freight Transportation

摘要: The research aims to produce a good operating plan at the tactical level for freight rail transportation. service network design problem is studied, as we consider scheduled selection, blocking policy, train make-up policy and car distribution together. A 2-layer time-space proposed model flow well decisions on both blocks services. mixed-integer programming difficult tabu search heuristic developed provide feasible solutions within reasonable solving effort. Numerical results show method robust, capable near-optimal rather large instances.