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Diesel Locomotive Fueling Problem (LFP) in Railroad Operations

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In this chapter we discuss the locomotive fueling problem (LFP) which is a critical problem in the operation of railroads using diesel locomotives. We describe three different algorithms, two based on greedy method and one using a MIP model to find a fueling plan for the various trains to minimize the total cost of fueling the locomotives. It is a case study, based on a simplified real problem constructed and set up for the “Problem Solving Competition 2010” organized by the RAS (Railway Applications Society) of the professional society INFORMS.

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  • Diesel Locomotive
  • Planning Horizon
  • Mixed Integer Programming
  • Round Trip
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Acknowledgments

We thank RAS of INFORMS, and Kamlesh Somani, Juan C Morales for permission to use this problem as a case study problem for this chapter and for agreeing to maintain the statement of the problem for future readers at the site mentioned in [3]. This problem specified by the data sets here can be used as a classroom project problem illustrating the usefulness of the greedy method in real world applications.

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  1. Operations Management Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Calcutta, West Bengal, India

    Bodhibrata Nag

  2. IOE Department, University of Michigan, 48109-2117, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Katta G. Murty

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Nag, B., Murty, K.G. (2015). Diesel Locomotive Fueling Problem (LFP) in Railroad Operations. In: Murty, K. (eds) Case Studies in Operations Research. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 212. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1007-6_2

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