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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 110
PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Edited by: J. Pombo
Paper 286

Optimizing Freight Train Scheduling with respect to Energy Consumption

B. Jaumard and T.H. Le

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
B. Jaumard, T.H. Le, "Optimizing Freight Train Scheduling with respect to Energy Consumption", in J. Pombo, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 286, 2016. doi:10.4203/ccp.110.286
Keywords: freight trains, scheduling, energy consumption, optimization modelling.

Summary
Planning accurately energy efficient scheduling for freight trains is challenging as very few studies have yet been devoted to energy train models. This paper studies the fuel consumption of freight trains. We determine the train speed that minimizes the energy consumption, taking into account the departure and arrival times. The proposed energy consumption model takes into account the ground topography, the speed, the number of axles. Some experiments, using Canada Pacific Railway (CPR) data, are conducted in order to estimate the energy gain when adapting the train speed.

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