Train Scheduling for Heavy Haul Railway

Abstract

Train Scheduling is very important for Heavy haul railway transportation organization. Based on the train scheduling procedure and rules of heavy haul train operation in China, this paper discusses some key problems for heavy haul train scheduling, which included train line plan for single track and double track line combined section, time window plan, train combined and decomposition problem, and train loading/unloading problem. Then the relative direction balanced departure method was put forward for train line plan at combined section, making the time window with the size of the interval capacity loss for time window plan, balanced train line layout for the combined and decomposition problem. For train loading and unloading problem, train plan should be adjusted to meet the working time at the arrived station.

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 61403317, 61703351), National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC0802208), Science and Technology Plan of Sichuan province (Project NO. 2017ZR0149, 2017RZ0007), and Science and Technology Plan of China Railway Corporation (Project No. 2016X006-D), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2682017ZDPY04, 2682017CX022, 2682017CX018).