| Title | A Study on Scheduling Charter Trains for the Taiwan Railway Administration System |
| Dept | Transportation Engineering, Maritime and Air Transport Division |
| Year | 2012 |
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| Summary | The goal of this research is to develop a mathematical method to solve the real-world problem of adding charter trains into the current Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) timetable, and to analyze the stability of the plan. This work also covers the current planning process for charter trains in TRA, issues including train scheduling, train drivers, and rolling stocks are discussed.
The work is divided into four major parts. The first part studies the demand for charter trains as well as the current planning process. The second part proposes an optimization-based mathematical model to solve for plans to insert charter trains into the current timetable. Requirements considered include fixing the schedule for all existing trains, as well as allowing a controlled flexibility for the existing timetable as the charter train is inserted. The third part estimates the influence of random perturbations and management efforts on stability with simulation, and the final part tests the correctness, as well as the ability for real-world applications, of the model with a real case taken from the TRA system. The case covers the section of railway between the New- Zuoying and the Taitung stations, and uses the current schedule which came into effect on 28 September 2011. |
| Post date | 2013/01/17 |
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