Abstract
Maintenance of a large fleet in train operating companies requires careful planning and efficient management of resources. This work presents a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model for the optimization of maintenance actions in a train operating company. Constraints associated with the capacity of the maintenance yard are included in the model, as well as other technical constraints. A case study of a Portuguese train operating company with a small-sized fleet is explored. Sensitivity analyses are conducted both on the computational performance of the model and the main cost components of the objective function.
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The authors would like to thank the support of Fertagus train operating company, namely in the individuals Eng. João Grossinho and Eng. João Duarte, who offered us several maintenance yard visits at Coina (Portugal) as well as valuable advice. Moreover, we also want to thank two anonymous reviewers for their attentive reading and suggestions to improve our work. This research is also part of the SMaRTE project that received funding from the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 777627. The second author was also supported by FCT, through IDMEC, under LAETA, project UID/EMS/50022/2013.
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Méchain, M., Andrade, A.R., Gomes, M.C. (2020). Planning Maintenance Actions in Train Operating Companies—A Portuguese Case Study. In: Ball, A., Gelman, L., Rao, B. (eds) Advances in Asset Management and Condition Monitoring. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 166. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57745-2_96
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