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- Title
Analysis of the location problem of emergency attendance teams for a railroad through optimization.
- Authors
Troian, Rodrigo; Santos, Gisele Tessari; Campos, Rodrigo Alexandre Celestino
- Abstract
Rail operators worldwide are seeing an increase in demand for services, driven by expanding global trade and the use of export commodities. Punctual service in a train stopped on the railroad is extremely important since the delay in service significantly impacts performance, asset utilization, and railroad productivity. The present work addresses the development and the solution of an optimization model for locating railway service teams that serve locomotives that need emergency maintenance on a Brazilian railway. Additionally, a hypercube model was solved to estimate several performance measures that assist in decision‐making. From the result analysis of different scenarios, it was found that the optimized maintenance teams' location provides superior results to the current ones considering the same resources. Also, it was possible to increase the coverage with double attendance in the studied system, monitoring different indicators such as attendance teams' average system travel time and workload.
- Subjects
LOCATION analysis; TRAVEL time (Traffic engineering); RAILROAD trains; ATTENDANCE; TEAMS; EXPORTERS
- Publication
International Transactions in Operational Research, 2024, Vol 31, Issue 6, p4363
- ISSN
0969-6016
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/itor.13279