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Article: Crew scheduling of light rail transit in Hong Kong: From modeling to implementation

TitleCrew scheduling of light rail transit in Hong Kong: From modeling to implementation
Authors
KeywordsCrew scheduling
Heuristics
Optimization modeling
Issue Date1998
PublisherPergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cor
Citation
Computers And Operations Research, 1998, v. 25 n. 11, p. 887-894 How to Cite?
AbstractThis work concerns the problem of crew scheduling for the Hong Kong Light Rail Transit (LRT), which together with Heavy Rail Transit, makes up the two divisions of Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation. As of early 1996, LRT operates eight routes, two train depots and 57 stations on its operational network. It is rapidly expanding on routes, capacities and territorial coverage, hence pressing needs for timely constructions of crew schedules whenever passenger demand variations necessitate modifications in train timetables, typically every 3-4 months. Computer-assisted manual solutions from old software can take up to 1 month of painstaking work. Our project aims at automating this complex schedule construction, adopting a novel optimization modeling approach amenable for decomposition into separate solution stages by network and heuristics algorithms. The entire crew schedule can be constructed iteratively in less than half an hour on a PC. The implementation runs as a decision support tool, with contributions of an overwhelming reduction in human effort in crew schedule construction and a feasible and better (higher productivity rate) schedule, with possible further manual improvements that can be made. © 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/75132
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2023 Impact Factor: 4.1
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.574
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dc.description.abstractThis work concerns the problem of crew scheduling for the Hong Kong Light Rail Transit (LRT), which together with Heavy Rail Transit, makes up the two divisions of Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation. As of early 1996, LRT operates eight routes, two train depots and 57 stations on its operational network. It is rapidly expanding on routes, capacities and territorial coverage, hence pressing needs for timely constructions of crew schedules whenever passenger demand variations necessitate modifications in train timetables, typically every 3-4 months. Computer-assisted manual solutions from old software can take up to 1 month of painstaking work. Our project aims at automating this complex schedule construction, adopting a novel optimization modeling approach amenable for decomposition into separate solution stages by network and heuristics algorithms. The entire crew schedule can be constructed iteratively in less than half an hour on a PC. The implementation runs as a decision support tool, with contributions of an overwhelming reduction in human effort in crew schedule construction and a feasible and better (higher productivity rate) schedule, with possible further manual improvements that can be made. © 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.en_HK
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dc.subjectCrew schedulingen_HK
dc.subjectHeuristicsen_HK
dc.subjectOptimization modelingen_HK
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