5. Conclusions and further works
Aiming to provide a system-optimization framework for railway planning, this study first integrated the train stop planning and train scheduling problems together into a fundamental collaborative optimization model on a single-track high-speed railway corridor. To set up the connection between the train stop plan and train schedule, a binary variable was introduced to determine whether a train is scheduled to stop at a station or not. Through minimizing the total delay at origin station and dwelling time at intermediate stations, the problem was formulated as a mixed integer linear programming model, where the passenger demands constraints are used to guarantee the necessary service levels. In order to show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approaches, two sets of examples were implemented. The first set of experiments demonstrated the applications of the produced model. Then, a real case study was performed on the Beijing– Shanghai high-speed railway corridor with the practical operation data. The computational results showed that the GAMS software with CPLEX solver can efficiently solve the medium-scale problem with the reasonable computational time.