| Article ID: | iaor1995220 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 45 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 384 |
| End Page Number: | 391 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1994 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Wright M., Fu Z. |
| Keywords: | combinatorial analysis |
British Rail will operate direct high-speed freight train services between Britain and the Continent when the Channel Tunnel opens in 1994. The production of a train plan for these services can be formulated as a multi-objective combinatorial optimization problem. This paper describes the problem and gives details of the heuristic algorithm used for its solution.