Dynamic Crew Allocation
(A Albrecht, P Pudney, P Howlett, S Mackenzie, K White, I Wadhawan, D Panton and D Lee)
In many bulk railways, crew rosters should be regular and equitable but
train timetables are highly variable and generally not known when crew
rosters are constructed. Furthermore, crew requirements can frequently
change in response to unexpected delays and events.
This Rail CRC project will develop fast and efficient policies for rostering
crews and for allocating crews to trains in a bulk railway.
The benefits of this project to the rail industry include:
- reducing train delays caused by unavailability of suitable crew
- increasing crew utilization
- increasing overall reliability and efficiency of the supply chain
- developing KPIs that produce objective performance measures of the overall operation and enable intelligent management practices.
Funding
Rail CRC grant, Albrecht (Leader), Howlett, Pudney, Dynamic Crew Allocation, $284,461, Industry Partners, Rio Tinto, March 2009 - February 2010.