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.