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Capacity Management on Long-Distance Passenger Trains of Indian Railways

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Title Capacity Management on Long-Distance Passenger Trains of Indian Railways
 
Creator GOPALAKRISHNAN, R
RANGARAJ, N
 
Subject seat allocation
flights
rail transportation
linear programming, applications
capacity management
revenue management
 
Description In this paper, we discuss a model to allocate train capacity among multiple travel segments on an Indian Railways train route with several stops. We use a linear programming model and data preprocessing and postprocessing to determine the optimal capacity allocation on multiple travel legs. The model uses a simple, effective capacity management tool. For historical and social reasons, Indian Railways splits its train capacity based on user and type of travel. Determining the optimal split of such capacity is nontrivial. We deal with the specific issue of the spatial split of seats in an end-to-end travel segment within a given travel class. This addresses the needs of end-to-end and en route travelers. When we applied our model to 17 Indian Railways trains, we achieved increases of 2.6 to 29.3 percent in revenue, 6.7 to 30.8 percent in load factors, and 8.4 to 29 percent in passengers carried.
 
Publisher INFORMS
 
Date 2011-08-02T16:44:44Z
2011-12-26T12:54:00Z
2011-12-27T05:41:15Z
2011-08-02T16:44:44Z
2011-12-26T12:54:00Z
2011-12-27T05:41:15Z
2010
 
Type Article
 
Identifier INTERFACES, 40(4), 291-302
0092-2102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/inte.1100.0495
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/8871
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/8871
 
Language en