Optimization Models for Rail Car Fleet Management

Presents the results of a multi-year effort, providing readers with valuable insights into railway transport management and optimization

Milos Milenkovic (Author), Nebojsa Bojovic (Author)

9780128151549

Paperback, published 7 September 2019

283 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.9 cm, 0.45 kg

Optimization Models for Rail Car Fleet Management represents the result of multi-year efforts to provide readers with insights into one of the most important areas of railway transport management. The book covers mathematical procedures for the effective and efficient utilization of railway freight cars, developed models for optimization methods, heterogeneity and partial substitutability of freight cars, research and development in rail freight car fleet management models, and the stochastic and dynamic nature of the supply, demand and traveling time of freight cars, among other topics.

1. Introduction2. Review of the models for rail freight car fleet management3. Centralized and decentralized Model for empty freight car scheduling4. Fuzzy multiobjective rail freight car fleet composition5. Fuzzy random model for rail freight car fleet management based on optimal control theory6. Stochastic model for heterogeneous rail freight car fleet management based on the model predictive control7. Distributed and decentralized approaches for rail freight car management8. Conclusions

Subject Areas: Sociology [JHB]