VIPES - Reliable and Integrated Planning of Circulations and Shifts in Railway Systems
Existing powerful operations research methods enable the creation of highly efficient plans for deploying personnel and vehicles in rail transport. In the implementation, however, delays and breakdowns mean that the plans can often not be executed as intended. To meet this challenge, the new project VIPES - Reliable and Integrated Planning of Circulations and Shifts in Railway Systems (funded by Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH, FFG), in which the Chair of Industrial Management at TU Dresden is also involved, was launched on October 1, 2022. Together with the partners from Vienna, methods are to be developed to design schedules for traction units and shift schedules for train crews in such a way that they are efficient and reliable at the same time. This is to be made possible by intelligent interaction between optimization and simulation. Machine learning techniques will be used to identify efficient and reliable solutions structures, which will then be used in the solution procedures. The project partners contribute their expertise in the field of robust planning (University of Vienna), simulation of railroad systems (dwh GmbH), as well as shift and vehicle scheduling methods (Chair of Industrial Management, TU Dresden). At the same time, ÖBB-Produktion Gesellschaft mbH accompanies the project as a practical partner.
This project is funded by the FFG. www.ffg.at
Project duration
2022/10/01 - 2025/03/31
Responsable staff
Prof. Dr. Udo Buscher
Dr. Martin Scheffler
Dr. Janis Neufeld
Paul Päprer