An energy-efficient rescheduling approach under delay perturbations for metro systems
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2019
Subject Area
place - asia, mode - subway/metro, operations - scheduling
Keywords
Metro trains, rescheduling approach, regenerative braking, energy consumption
Abstract
Due to the increasing energy prices and environmental issues, energy conservation for metro trains has become an important research topic in recent years. The static timetable optimization approach can reduce the trains’ energy consumption to a certain degree by scheduling multiple trains’ movements. However, this optimization approach is prone to fail when one or some trains are delayed at stations. This paper develops an energy-efficient rescheduling approach under delay perturbations for metro trains, which aims to minimize the net energy consumption under the premise of reducing or eliminating the delay altogether. Firstly, we provide an illustrative example to describe the rescheduling problem. Furthermore, we formulate an integer programming model and design an allocation algorithm to obtain the optimal schedule. Finally, a numerical example based on the Beijing Metro Yizhuang Line shows that the developed approach can reduce the net energy consumption by 8.19% in comparison with the traditional rescheduling approach.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Taylor&Francis, copyright remains with them.
Recommended Citation
Yang, X., Chen, A., Wu, J., Gao, Z., & Tang, T. (2019). An energy-efficient rescheduling approach under delay perturbations for metro systems. Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, Vol. 7, pp. 386-400.
