An inbound bulk tanker scheduling problem of a railway transshipment system with special locomotive dispatching mode in hydropower development projects in China is studied. The problem is formulated as a mixed integer programming model concerning train marshalling and train scheduling under the conflicts of the locomotive usage among the inbound operations. A three-stage algorithm (TSA) and a differential evolution algorithm (DEA) are developed, both with three critical components: tanker regrouping, tanker sorting and train scheduling. An encoding scheme with batch partitioning chromosome and batch combining chromosome is designed for the DEA. With real-life cases, numerical experiments show that TSA runs faster but DEA provides higher quality solutions.


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    Title :

    Inbound Bulk Tanker Scheduling with Special Locomotive Dispatching Mode of a Railway Transshipment System


    Contributors:
    Tang, Shuxian (author) / Liu, Zhenyuan (author) / Chen, Xi (author) / Zeng, Ping (author)


    Publication date :

    2019-09-01


    Size :

    153175 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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