Benders decomposition to accelerate determination of optimal railway intervention programmes

Author:

Mehranfar Hamed1,Adey Bryan T1,Burkhalter Marcel2,Moghtadernejad Saviz3

Affiliation:

1. Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, Institute of Construction and Infrastructure Management, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2. Federal Office of Transport, Bern, Switzerland

3. Construction Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Abstract

An important task of railway asset managers is to develop intervention programmes. These interventions need to be developed considering network-level synergies and constraints, in addition to the condition of the assets and their optimal intervention strategies. Considering these concerns may lead to executing interventions earlier or later than specified in asset intervention strategies to reach optimality. Synergies include the fact that the simultaneous execution of more than one intervention disrupts train movements only once. Constraints include budget limits and not closing parallel lines simultaneously. Although many railway asset managers currently determine intervention programmes in a rather qualitative iterative fashion, there is an increasing interest in exploiting digitalisation to improve the process. This interest has led to a rise in research focused on the development of mixed-integer linear programs to determine optimal programmes more efficiently and effectively. These powerful models, however, still have issues with complicated intervention planning problems, making their use slower than desired. This paper investigates the potential use of Benders decomposition to accelerate the determination of optimal railway intervention programmes for 2.2 km of the Irish Rail network. It is found that the optimal intervention programme is up to 30% faster for the studied example.

Publisher

Thomas Telford Ltd.

Subject

Public Administration,Safety Research,Transportation,Building and Construction,Geography, Planning and Development

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