长江干线航道条件与船舶定线制问题分析与研究

通过分析长江干线已实施船舶定线制的特点,分析船舶定线制的一般形式与通航条件,提出了长江干线船舶定线制的航道尺度计算方法和水流条件指标,并结合航道条件,提出了长江干线其他未实施船舶定线制河段的定线制形式,为进一步完善内河船舶定线制提供了一种方法和思路。     

The design of bus route systems — An interactive location-allocation approach

An interactive modelling approach is developed to solve the practical problem of bus route network design. Possible bus routes are identified with facilities which can be located. Zones or pairs of zones in the urban area are identified with customers who will be allocated to the established facilities. It is shown that the classical Set Covering Problem is useful under the assumption of fixed demand; the Simple Plant Location Problem is effective under the assumption of demand which is sensitive to the level of bus service provided.     

肩回交路条件下多机牵引机车周转图的优化

针对采用机车肩回交路的重载铁路线路,将其列车运行图中的列车运行线转化为节点,机车周转线转化为边,运用机车转化为流,从而将机车周转图的优化问题转化为网络流问题.在此基础上,以运用机车数最少、单机走行数最少、附挂机车数最少、机车在站停留时间最短和机车工作均衡性最好为优化目标,以网络流问题中的节点流量守恒和节点流量要满足节点需求为约束条件,建立肩回交路条件下的多机牵引机车周转图多目标优化模型.按照优化目标函数的优先级,采用分层序列法对模型求解,并利用C#语言编写程序,通过调用ILOG CPLEX优化软件实现了该算法.算例表明,采用所给模型和据此编制的机车周转图优化程序,可以快速优化肩回交路条件下的多机牵引机车周转图.     

旅客列车过站径路优化模型与算法

在给定铁路客运站站形布局和列车运行图的前提下,研究旅客列车过站径路优化问题。过站径路由列车的接车作业进路、占用的到发线和发车作业进路拼接而成。以旅客列车的接发车作业进路为决策,以道岔和到发线占用相容性为约束,以最大化接发车作业进路效用和到发线运用效用为优化目标,建立旅客列车过站径路优化的0-1规划模型。设计基于极大列车过站径路方案k剔除邻域系的模拟退火算法。以某客运站为例验证该模型和算法的合理性。结果表明:模型对实际问题的描述准确,算法效率较高,适用于求解大规模铁路客运站旅客列车过站径路优化问题。     

基于无线Mesh网络技术的列车宽带接入原型系统设计

随着高速铁路、公路交通的发展,信息网络的移动接入技术需要得到相应的改善和提高。根据公共移动通信网和铁路专用移动通信网的发展现状,目前有多种列车移动接入技术。通过方案比较,本文原型系统采用了基于无线Mesh网络技术的无线宽带接入技术。当前,无线Mesh网络可遵循的标准有IEEE802.11s草案,该草案对无线Mesh网络的功能、接口及网络协议栈进行了全面的定义。本文根据IEEE802.11s草案,在Linux操作系统下定义了Mesh协议栈框架,并在此基础上设计实现了针对列车的车地宽带接入带状应用场景的无线Mesh网络原型系统,并就搭建的实际网络场景进行了性能测试。实验结果表明,所设计的原型系统基本达到了列车车地宽带接入应用的要求。     

A rolling horizon algorithm for auto-carrier transportation

This paper introduces a rolling horizon algorithm to plan the delivery of vehicles to automotive dealers by a heterogeneous fleet of auto-carriers. The problem consists in scheduling the deliveries over a multiple-day planning horizon during which requests for transportation arrive dynamically. In addition, the routing of the auto-carriers must take into account constraints related to the loading of the vehicles on the carriers. The objective is to minimize the sum of traveled distances, fixed costs for auto-carrier operation, service costs, and penalties for late deliveries. The problem is solved by a heuristic that first selects the vehicles to be delivered in the next few days and then optimizes the deliveries by an iterated local search procedure. A branch-and-bound search is used to check the feasibility of the loading. To handle the dynamic nature of the problem, the complete algorithm is applied repeatedly in a rolling horizon framework. Computational results on data from a major European logistics service provider show that the heuristic is fast and yields significant improvements compared to the sequential solution of independent daily problems.     

The load-dependent vehicle routing problem and its pick-up and delivery extension

The present paper examines a Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) of major practical importance which is referred to as the Load-Dependent VRP (LDVRP). LDVRP is applicable for transportation activities where the weight of the transported cargo accounts for a significant part of the vehicle gross weight. Contrary to the basic VRP which calls for the minimization of the distance travelled, the LDVRP objective is aimed at minimizing the total product of the distance travelled and the gross weight carried along this distance. Thus, it is capable of producing sensible routing plans which take into account the variation of the cargo weight along the vehicle trips. The LDVRP objective is closely related to the total energy requirements of the vehicle fleet, making it a credible alternative when the environmental aspects of transportation activities are examined and optimized. A novel LDVRP extension which considers simultaneous pick-up and delivery service is introduced, formulated and solved for the first time. To deal with large-scale instances of the examined problems, we propose a local-search algorithm. Towards an efficient implementation, the local-search algorithm employs a computational scheme which calculates the complex weighted-distance objective changes in constant time. Solution results are presented for both problems on a variety of well-known test cases demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed solution approach. The structure of the obtained LDVRP and VRP solutions is compared in pursuit of interesting conclusions on the relative suitability of the two routing models, when the decision maker must deal with the weighted distance objective. In addition, results of a branch-and-cut procedure for small-scale instances of the LDVRP with simultaneous pick-ups and deliveries are reported. Finally, extensive computational experiments have been performed to explore the managerial implications of three key problem characteristics, namely the deviation of customer demands, the cargo to tare weight ratio, as well as the size of the available vehicle fleet.     

基于OpenStreetMap的城市自行车网建模与多判据路径规划

自行车交通是一种健康、绿色、环保的交通出行方式,合理地规划自行车出行路线对于满足骑行者多元化出行需求、构建安全规范的城市交通出行环境具有重要的意义.在对真实骑行者路径选择行为深入分析的基础上,提出了基于Open Street Map的城市自行车网络的构建方法及基于其上的多判据自行车路径优化的数学模型,并给出了求解该模型的一种基于聚类的最优多判据路径规划方法.实验仿真结果表明,该模型及方法能够生成满足骑行者真实需求的多判据路线方案.     

Robust weekly aircraft maintenance routing problem and the extension to the tail assignment problem

In this paper, we study two closely related airline planning problems: the robust weekly aircraft maintenance routing problem (RWAMRP) and the tail assignment problem (TAP). In real life operations, the RWAMRP solution is used in tactical planning whereas the TAP solution is implemented in operational planning. The main objective of these two problems is to minimize the total expected propagated delay (EPD) of the aircraft routes. To formulate the RWAMRP, we propose a novel weekly line-of-flights (LOF) network model that can handle complex and nonlinear cost functions of EPD. Because the number of LOFs grows exponentially with the number of flights to be scheduled, we propose a two-stage column generation approach to efficiently solve large-scale real-life RWAMRPs. Because the EPD of an LOF is highly nonlinear and can be very time-consuming to accurately compute, we propose three lower bounds on the EPD to solve the pricing subproblem of the column generation. Our approach is tested on eight real-life test instances. The computational results show that the proposed approach provides very tight LP relaxation (within 0.6% of optimal solutions) and solves the test case with more than 6000 flights per week in less than three hours. We also investigate the solutions obtained by our approach over 500 simulated realizations. The simulation results demonstrate that, in all eight test instances, our solutions result in less EPDs than those obtained from traditional methods. We then extend our model and solution approach to solve realistically simulated TAP instances.     

Generalized Maximum Benefit Multiple Chinese Postman Problem

This research is focused on a generalization on the Max Benefit Chinese Postman Problem and the multiple vehicle variant of the Chinese Postman Problem. We call this generalization, the Generalized Maximum Benefit k-Chinese Postman Problem (GB k-CPP). We present a novel Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) formulation for the GB k-CPP. Four different cases of the model are discussed. The first case, performs arc-routing with profits and assumes that the origin and destination for each vehicle is the same for each cycle and is given by the user. The next case relaxes the assumption that the origin and destination for each vehicle should be the same and allows the users to select possible origins/destinations for vehicles. Case three gets the origin for each vehicle as input and produces a solution based on finding the best destination for each vehicle. The last case, that is very general, allows the optimization model to select possibly different locations for vehicle origin and destination, during each cycle. The different cases are applied to a security patrolling case conducted on the network of University of Maryland at College Park campus and the results are compared.