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Integrating Line Planning for Construction Sites into Periodic Timetabling via Track Choice

Authors Berenike Masing , Niels Lindner , Christian Liebchen

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Berenike Masing
  • Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
Niels Lindner
  • Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Christian Liebchen
  • Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Germany

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We would like to thank DB Netz AG for providing us with data and sharing their experience and insights.

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Berenike Masing, Niels Lindner, and Christian Liebchen. Integrating Line Planning for Construction Sites into Periodic Timetabling via Track Choice. In 23rd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2023). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 115, pp. 5:1-5:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2023.5

Abstract

We consider maintenance sites for urban rail systems, where unavailable tracks typically require changes to the regular timetable, and often even to the line plan. In this paper, we present an integrated mixed-integer linear optimization model to compute an optimal line plan that makes best use of the available tracks, together with a periodic timetable, including its detailed routing on the tracks within the stations. The key component is a flexible, turn-sensitive event-activity network that allows to integrate line planning and train routing using a track choice extension of the Periodic Event Scheduling Problem (PESP). Major goals are to maintain as much of the regular service as possible, and to keep the necessary changes rather local. Moreover, we present computational results on real construction site scenarios on the S-Bahn Berlin network. We demonstrate that this integrated problem is indeed solvable on practically relevant instances.

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  • Applied computing → Transportation
  • Mathematics of computing → Combinatorial optimization
Keywords
  • Periodic Timetabling
  • Line Planning
  • Track Choice
  • Mixed-Integer Programming
  • Construction Sites
  • Railway Rescheduling

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