Trains move along the railway infrastructure according to specific timetables. The timetables are based on the running time calculation and they are usually calculated without considering explicitly energy consumption. Since green transportation is becoming more and more important from environmental perspectives, energy consumption minimization could be considered also in timetable calculation. In particular, the Energy-Efficient Train Timetabling Problem (EETTP) consists in the energy-efficient timetable calculation considering the trade-off between energy efficiency and running times. In this work, a solution approach to solve a multi-objective EETTP is described in which the two objectives are the minimization of both energy consumption and the total travel time. The approach finds the schedules to guarantee that the train speed profiles minimize the objectives. It is based on modeFRONTIER and OpenTrack that are integrated by using the OpenTrack Application Programming Interface in a modeFRONTIER workflow. In particular, the optimization is made by modeFRONTIER, while the calculation of the train speed profiles, energy consumption and total travel time is made by OpenTrack. The approach is used with Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm-II and the Non-dominating Sorting Genetic-II, which are two genetic algorithms available in modeFRONTIER. The solution approach is tested on a case study that represents a real situation of metro line in Turkey. For both algorithms, a Pareto Front of solution which are a good trade-off between the objectives are reported. The results show significant reduction of both energy consumption and total travel time with respect to the existing timetable.


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    Title :

    A New Multi-objective Solution Approach Using ModeFRONTIER and OpenTrack for Energy-Efficient Train Timetabling Problem


    Additional title:

    Computational Methods


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2020-02-29


    Size :

    17 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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