To optimize railway car routing based on balanced station‐line capacities, thereby improving railway freight traffic organization efficiency, and reducing transportation costs, a railway car routing optimization model based on the coordinated utilization of station‐line capacities was developed. Based on the theory of the membership function in fuzzy mathematics, the level of railway station‐line coordination based on capacity utilization was presented. The occupancy of a railway line by each car was taken as a binary decision variable. Using a set of deviation constraints, the deviation between the station‐line flow of the railway network and the utilization of a certain level was expressed in the form of decision variables that were then penalized to different degrees in the objective function. The total transportation cost and the penalty cost were taken as the objective function for minimization. Based on the characteristics of the fuzzy membership degree, the relationship between the penalty for capacity deviation and the membership function in the optimization model was analyzed, and the calculation method of the penalty for the capacity deviation considering the membership function was presented. An adaptive large‐scale neighbourhood search (ALNS) algorithm was designed to solve the model, and its effectiveness was verified. An actual 36‐station railway network was used to validate the proposed railway car routing optimization model through comparison with existing models. The optimization results showed that, at the expense of increasing the transportation cost by 1.05%, the coordination penalty cost was reduced by 11.24%, the overall cost was reduced by 3.21%, and most of the situation with 90% utilization rate of stations and lines in the railway network was eliminated. The model proposed in this paper can help reduce the pressure on lines and stations with tight capacity in the network, improve the utilization of virtual lines and stations and coordination of station‐line capacities.


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    Title :

    Railway car routing optimization based on the coordinated utilization of station‐line capacities


    Contributors:
    Guangye, Li (author) / He, Shiwei (author) / Song, Rui (author) / Song, Zilong (author) / Xue, Shouqiang (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2023-05-01


    Size :

    15 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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