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11. Railway Crew Management

Authors : Erwin Abbink, Dennis Huisman, Leo Kroon

Published in: Handbook of Optimization in the Railway Industry

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This chapter deals with railway crew management, thereby focusing on the situation at Netherlands Railways (NS). NS is the main operator of passenger trains in the Netherlands. In this context, railway crew management is the process of guaranteeing in the most efficient way that the timetabled trains are supplied with a train driver and a sufficient number of conductors, thereby satisfying all the relevant practical constraints. Crew management has long term capacity planning aspects as well as short term scheduling, rostering, and dispatching aspects. In this chapter we describe these planning and dispatching processes, thereby focusing on practical issues. We also describe the planning support tools that are used by NS to support these processes.

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In order to simplify the formulations in this chapter, we assume that the crew members are male, despite the fact that the number of women among the crew members is increasing. However, they are still a minority.

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Title: Railway Crew Management
Authors: Erwin Abbink
Dennis Huisman
Leo Kroon
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Handbook of Optimization in the Railway Industry
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-72152-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-72153-8

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72153-8_11

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