Integrated Backup Rolling Stock Allocation and Timetable Rescheduling with Uncertain Time-Variant Passenger Demand Under Disruptive Events

This archive is distributed in association with the INFORMS Journal on Computing under the MIT License.

The software and data in this repository are a snapshot of the software and data that were used in the research reported on in the paper "Integrated Backup Rolling Stock Allocation and Timetable Rescheduling with Uncertain Time-Variant Passenger Demand Under Disruptive Events" by J. Yin, L. Yang, D. Andrea, et al. The snapshot is based on this SHA in the development repository.

Important: This code is being developed on an on-going basis at https://github.com/JerryYINJIATENG/TARP. Please go there if you would like to get a more recent version or would like support

Cite

To cite this software, please cite the paper using its DOI and the software itself, using the following DOI.

Below is the BibTex for citing this version of the code.

@article{BARP,
  author =        {Jiateng Yin, Lixing Yang, D'Ariano Andrea, Tao Tang, Ziyou Gao},
  publisher =     {INFORMS Journal on Computing},
  title =         {{Integrated Backup Rolling Stock Allocation and Timetable Rescheduling with Uncertain Time-Variant Passenger Demand Under Disruptive Events} Version v1.0},
  year =          {2022},
  doi =           {10.5281/zenodo.6892548},
  url =           {https://github.com/INFORMSJoC/2021.0094},
}  

Description

This repository includes the computational results, source codes and source data (with no conflict of interest) for the experiments presented in the paper.

Requirements

For these experiments, the following requirements should be satisfied

• a PC with at least 16 GB RAM
• C++ run on Windows 10 (with SDK higher than 10.0.150630.0)
• CPLEX 12.80 Academic version.

Results

The results for each instance, involving the fleet size of rolling stocks, ATT (unit: second), value of objective function, CPU time and optimality gap, are involved in results by "NO BRS", "Randomly solution", "LSM" and "ILM", as presented in Table 11 in the paper.

Replicating

To replicate the results in results, please follow the instructions below.

Contents of this repository

data files

The folder data contains all the parameters and samples used in our experiments.

• The data contains five groups. Each group has two .csv files. In each group, the first file Output_Passenger_Board specifies the dynamic passenger arriving volumes at each station for each stochastic scenario. The second file Output_Passenger_Alight specifics the cumulative volume of alighting passengers at each station for each stochastic scenario. In addition, some other related parameters are also listed in the data set.
• In each file Output_Passenger_Board, the first row reports some basic parameter settings, involving the investment cost, number of time units, and instance type. The second row reports the index of stations, from station 1 to station 26. The following rows present the detailed passenger arriving data, from the first scenario to the last scenario. In each scenario, the passenger related data are grouped into blocks. In each block, the first column indicates the index of time units, while each element in the other columns represents the passenger arrival rate at one specific station on each time unit. Notice that each block contains the passenger arriving data in one scenario. For example, the data from row 4 to row 723 represent scenario 0.
• In each file Output_Passenger_Alight, the basic settings are the same as those in Output_Passenger_Board. Differently, each element in this file represents the cumulative volume of alighting passengers (i.e., $\alpha_{it}^w$) in our model.

code files

The code files involve two main parts.

• data generation: The codes in Data_Generation are used for randomly generating data samples in the experiments. Specifically, parameters, such as the number of scenarios, number of stations and number of time units, can be adjusted following the specific requirement of the user. The data were randomly generated using the files in this folder.
• model construction and resolution: The codes in scr are used for constructing the two-stage stochastic integer model, with the help of a space-time network class. Some basic parameters, such as the number of existing trains, their allocations, train capacity, investment cost, section running time, dwelling time, can be adjusted according to the practical requirement of the user. In the mainfile, the function "solver_space_time_backup_integer_multi_scenario_new" is the function that directly solves the mathematical formulation with CPLEX. Two other functions, "benders_decomposition" and "L_METHOD_benders_decomposition" are the functions that are used in LSM and ILM. In the implementations, after the setting of basic parameters and construction of the space-time network, the user can choose one of these options to run the model and save the results.

Steps to implement the code

• Adjust the path of libraries ilcplex.h and ilocplex.h in the project as the default path in your PC
• Add linkers and CPLEX libraries to the correct position
• Change the path of input data and output, involving the number of arriving passengers and alighting passengers in folder data
• Keep the basic parameters correct. In particular, make sure that the number of scenarios, number of stations and number of time units from the input data are exactly the same as those in the project
• Select an option to solve the model by choosing one function, with CPLEX, LSM or ILM
• Compile and build the project in Visual Studio (2017 recommended)
• Run the project and save the results.

Ongoing Development

This code is being developed on an on-going basis at the author's Github site.