Rescheduling of light rail trains during disruption : an optimization model for Bybanen in Bergen
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Sammendrag
When a disruption occurs in an urban rail system, it usually results in significant disturbances
due to limited operational flexibility. In this thesis, we develop an optimization model that
efficiently reschedules trains during partial blockage on a double-tracked light rail line. The
rescheduled timetable is obtained by a mixed-integer linear programming model that minimizes
the sum of delay at all stations by rescheduling trains through the opposite track using
crossovers.
The numerical analyses are performed on three case studies based on real-world data from
Bybanen light rail system in the city of Bergen. Our findings suggest that the proposed
optimization model can safely reschedule train operations through crossovers located at their
actual position in the network. Our findings also indicate that when minimizing delay at all
stations instead of at the final stations, it contributes to more evenly distribution of passenger
delay. This is demonstrated by comparing two different objective functions.
The results furthermore imply that by increasing frequencies, a crossover strategy will be
harder to implement following larger density of trains. Changing from manual to automatic
crossovers seems to have little effect on rescheduling of train operations. When expanding to
double-tracked crossovers, however, the results indicate that punctuality and train operations
are significantly improved. Finally, as the optimization model solves the most comprehensive
case study in six seconds, the model can be applied by dispatchers in real-time decisions.