Railway Infrastructure Maintenance - A Survey of Planning Problems and Conducted Research

Lidén, Tomas

doi:10.1016/j.trpro.2015.09.011

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“…It is notable that, in railway infrastructure, the rate of degradation is not quick. However, this process can lead to system failure with great human casualties and significant financial loss if necessary maintenance actions are not considered [6,7]. To keep the tram services reliable and comfortable, implementing efficient maintenance strategies is necessary [8].…”

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Rail Degradation Prediction Models for Tram System: Melbourne Case Study

Falamarzi

Moridpour

Nazem

et al. 2018

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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Tram is classified as a light rail mode of transportation. Tram tracks experience high acceleration and deceleration forces of locomotives and wagons within their service life and also share their route with other vehicles. This results in higher rates of degradation in tram tracks compared to the degradation rate in heavy rail tracks. In this research, gauge deviation is employed as a representative of track geometry irregularities for the predication of the tram track degradation. Data sets used in this research were sourced from Melbourne's tram system. For model development, the data of approximately 250 km of tram tracks are used. Two different models including a regression model and an Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) model have been applied for predicting tram track gauge deviation. According to the results, the performances of the regression models are similar to the ANN models. The determination coefficients of the developed models are above 0.7.

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Rail Degradation Prediction Models for Tram System: Melbourne Case Study

Falamarzi

Moridpour

Nazem

et al. 2018

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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“…To ensure that signaling equipment is both cost efficient and safe throughout its service life, effective maintenance planning is crucial. Generally, railway maintenance planning and scheduling problems are considered as either strategic, tactical or operational level problems ( Lidén, 2015 ). Using this terminology, the problem that we consider here is considered to be a tactical problem, where the aim is to assign and schedule a set of maintenance tasks to maintenance crew members over a given planning horizon.…”

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A hybrid Constraint Programming/Mixed Integer Programming framework for the preventive signaling maintenance crew scheduling problem

Pour

Drake

Ejlertsen

et al. 2018

European Journal of Operational Research

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“…Strategic and tactical maintenance planning of railway infrastructures (Su et al, 2017;Xie et al, 2016), rail inspection scheduling (Lannez et al, 2015;Osman et al, 2017;Peng et al, 2013), as well as the coordination of train scheduling and infrastructure maintenance (D'Ariano et al, 2017;Forsgren et al, 2013;Lidén and Joborn, 2017;Luan et al, 2017;Vansteenwegen et al, 2016), have been widely studied in the literature. See Lidén (2015) for a more detailed review of the rail infrastructure maintenance planning problems. However, the study and analysis of the rail track maintenance scheduling problem under variable productivities are still lacking.…”

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A Customized Hybrid Approach to Infrastructure Maintenance Scheduling in Railroad Networks under Variable Productivities

Xie

Lei

Ouyang

2018

Computer aided Civil Eng

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Railroads are maintained routinely by using various types of rail‐bound machines so as to achieve the longest possible rail life and reduce the safety risks associated with unanticipated rail failures. The rail maintenance routing and scheduling problem (RMRSP), which involves routing of multiple maintenance vehicles and scheduling of hundreds of maintenance jobs over a large‐scale network, is usually subject to various types of complex constraints and extremely difficult to solve. This article proposes a vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) formulation for RMRSP and develops a customized stepwise algorithm to solve the problem. A series of numerical experiments are conducted to demonstrate that the proposed algorithm works very effectively, significantly outperforming the state‐of‐the‐art commercial solver. The results of two real‐world instances from a Class I railroad company show that the proposed model and solution algorithm enable the expensive maintenance vehicles to achieve a higher level of utilization, that is, spending more time on working and less time on deadhead traveling.

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Railway Infrastructure Maintenance - A Survey of Planning Problems and Conducted Research

Cited by 123 publications

References 42 publications

Rail Degradation Prediction Models for Tram System: Melbourne Case Study

Rail Degradation Prediction Models for Tram System: Melbourne Case Study

A hybrid Constraint Programming/Mixed Integer Programming framework for the preventive signaling maintenance crew scheduling problem

A Customized Hybrid Approach to Infrastructure Maintenance Scheduling in Railroad Networks under Variable Productivities

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