Solving a real-world Locomotive Scheduling Problem with Maintenance Constraints

Study on the effective way to convert waste into resources—game analysis of reverse logistics implementation based on value chain

“…Social benefits follow environmental benefits, and concern for and protection of the environment reflects the enterprise's commitment to social responsibility (Gelderman et al, 2021;Usman et al, 2022), which is also the responsibility of the government (Ma and Zhang, 2020), which helps to enhance the image of both in the public mind. The costs paid can sometimes be a driving factor, such as the cost of incinerating or disposing of waste directly in landfills (Dijkgraaf and Vollebergh, 2004); the cost of maintaining facilities and equipment (Frisch et al, 2021) is one of the factors that motivate logistics companies to operate reverse logistics, and the high cost of environmental management can attract the government participation in reverse logistics while prompting enterprises to choose reverse logistics (Wang et al, 2018;Chu et al, 2019;Liu W. et al, 2021). Reddy et al (2020) considered the impact of carbon tax in the design of the reverse logistics network, indicating that the implementation of reverse logistics also comes at a certain environmental cost; similarly, Liu et al (2014) pointed out that the process of remanufacturing also generates different levels of pollution, both providing new ideas for improving the overall environmental benefits; in terms of economic investment, the original construction of reverse logistics system requires a large amount of financial support (Abdulrahman et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2020), and also requires certain cost investment in the subsequent operation process, such as material consumption in the remanufacturing process (Lv et al, 2021;Ullah et al, 2021;Andersen et al, 2022) and the cost of packaging the waste (Gámez Albán et al, 2015;Meherishi et al, 2021).…”

“…(ii) An enterprise's decision to implement reverse logistics is irreversible (Govindan et al, 2019). Once the system is in place, the cost of maintaining the facilities and equipment (Frisch et al, 2021) will drive enterprises to continue to develop reverse logistics. In contrast, combined with the long construction period of the reverse logistics system and the large original investment, the maintenance cost of the facilities and equipment before the construction of the system will prevent enterprises from choosing to establish a system to implement reverse logistics.…”

Modeling landside container terminal queues: Exact analysis and approximations

“…For an overview of relevant research questions, one can refer to Borndörfer et al (2018) or Boysen et al (2012a). All in all, the most fundamental problem is the train scheduling problem which determines the route, stop plan and departure/arrival times of each train (see, for example, Zhang et al, 2022;Ahern et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2021b;Frisch et al, 2021). In a different segment of the literature, some papers study the added value of a rail terminal located inside a port area (Xie and Song, 2018;Hu et al, 2019;Chen et al, 2018;Gharehgozli et al, 2017).…”

Locomotive maintenance scheduling: optimization approaches and a case study

“…There are a few studies that address the maintenance requirements integrated with the LSP problem, and these requirements are in general expressed by the maximum number of days between two successive stops for maintenance. For instance, in [8] and [9] the authors address the LSP with maintenance requirements to assign locomotives to the train with the maximization of locomotives utilization, proposing heuristic approaches and mixed-integer programming (MIP) models. Other papers that also consider maintenance requirements in a wide spectrum are [2] and [3].…”