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Main Authors: Lindenmaier, László, Lövétei, István Ferenc, Aradi, Szilárd
Format: Preprint
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12689
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author Lindenmaier, László
Lövétei, István Ferenc
Aradi, Szilárd
author_facet Lindenmaier, László
Lövétei, István Ferenc
Aradi, Szilárd
contents The railway timetables are designed in an optimal manner to maximize the capacity usage of the infrastructure concerning different objectives besides avoiding conflicts. The real-time railway traffic management problem occurs when the pre-planned timetable cannot be fulfilled due to various disturbances; therefore, the trains must be rerouted, reordered, and rescheduled. Optimizing the real-time railway traffic management aims to resolve the conflicts minimizing the delay propagation or even the energy consumption. In this paper, the existing mixed-integer linear programming optimization models are extended considering a safety-relevant issue of railway traffic management, the overlaps. However, solving the resulting model can be time-consuming in complex control areas and traffic situations involving many trains. Therefore, we propose different runtime efficient multi-stage heuristic models by decomposing the original problem. The impact of the model decomposition is investigated mathematically and experimentally in different rail networks and various simulated traffic scenarios concerning the objective value and the computational demand of the optimization. Besides providing a more realistic solution for the traffic management problem, the proposed multi-stage models significantly decrease the optimization runtime.
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spellingShingle Efficient Real-time Rail Traffic Optimization: Decomposition of Rerouting, Reordering, and Rescheduling Problem
Lindenmaier, László
Lövétei, István Ferenc
Aradi, Szilárd
Optimization and Control
The railway timetables are designed in an optimal manner to maximize the capacity usage of the infrastructure concerning different objectives besides avoiding conflicts. The real-time railway traffic management problem occurs when the pre-planned timetable cannot be fulfilled due to various disturbances; therefore, the trains must be rerouted, reordered, and rescheduled. Optimizing the real-time railway traffic management aims to resolve the conflicts minimizing the delay propagation or even the energy consumption. In this paper, the existing mixed-integer linear programming optimization models are extended considering a safety-relevant issue of railway traffic management, the overlaps. However, solving the resulting model can be time-consuming in complex control areas and traffic situations involving many trains. Therefore, we propose different runtime efficient multi-stage heuristic models by decomposing the original problem. The impact of the model decomposition is investigated mathematically and experimentally in different rail networks and various simulated traffic scenarios concerning the objective value and the computational demand of the optimization. Besides providing a more realistic solution for the traffic management problem, the proposed multi-stage models significantly decrease the optimization runtime.
title Efficient Real-time Rail Traffic Optimization: Decomposition of Rerouting, Reordering, and Rescheduling Problem
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12689