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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2023.8
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-187695
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2023/18769/
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Correia Duarte, Pedro José ; Schmidt, Marie ; Huisman, Dennis ; Veelenturf, Lucas P.

Fewer Trains for Better Timetables: The Price of Fixed Line Frequencies in the Passenger-Oriented Timetabling Problem

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Abstract

This paper introduces the Passenger-Oriented Timetabling problem with flexible frequencies (POT-flex) in the context of railway planning problems. POT-flex aims at creating feasible railway timetables minimising total perceived passenger travel time. The contribution of the POT-flex lies in its relaxation of the generally adopted assumption that line frequencies should be a fixed part of the input. Instead, we consider flexible line frequencies, encompassing a minimum and maximum frequency per line, allowing the timetabling model to decide on optimal line frequencies to obtain better solutions using fewer train services per line. We develop a mixed-integer programming formulation for POT-flex based on the Passenger-Oriented Timetabling (POT) formulation of [Polinder et al., 2021] and compare the performance of the new formulation against the POT formulation on three instances. We find that POT-flex allows to find feasible timetables in instances containing bottlenecks, and show improvements of up to 2% on the largest instance tested. These improvements highlight the cost that fixed line frequencies can have on timetabling.

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@InProceedings{correiaduarte_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2023.8,
  author =	{Correia Duarte, Pedro Jos\'{e} and Schmidt, Marie and Huisman, Dennis and Veelenturf, Lucas P.},
  title =	{{Fewer Trains for Better Timetables: The Price of Fixed Line Frequencies in the Passenger-Oriented Timetabling Problem}},
  booktitle =	{23rd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2023)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:18},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-302-7},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{115},
  editor =	{Frigioni, Daniele and Schiewe, Philine},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18769},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-187695},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2023.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: PESP, Passenger Oriented Timetabling, Perceived Travel Time}
}

Keywords: PESP, Passenger Oriented Timetabling, Perceived Travel Time
Collection: 23rd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2023)
Issue Date: 2023
Date of publication: 31.08.2023

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