Urban Freight by Rail: A MILP Modeling for Optimizing the Transport of Goods

Walid Behiri (1) , Onur Ozturk (2) , Sana Belmokhtar-Berraf (1)

1 ESIEE Paris
2 G-SCOP_GCSP - Gestion et Conduite des Systèmes de Production

The present paper discusses an alternative way of transporting freight by using urban rail infrastructure. Instead of deploying trucks for the transport of goods, we study the possibility of using existing suburban rail. As a first contribution, several decision-making problems are identified dealing with urban freight. In this paper, the addressed problem deals with a commuter line on which each station can be used as a loading/unloading platform for goods such as demand (goods boxes) is known in advance. As a second contribution, a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) model is proposed to minimize the total waiting time of daily deliveries such that each box is transported from its departure station to its arrival station. Numerical results show that the model is able to solve moderate size instances in very short amount of time.

Mots clés: Mixed Integer Linear Programming; rail freight; urban freight transport

Domaines: Recherche opérationnelle [math.OC]

Walid Behiri, Onur Ozturk, Sana Belmokhtar-Berraf. Urban Freight by Rail: A MILP Modeling for Optimizing the Transport of Goods. The 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain, Jun 2016, Bordeaux, France. ⟨hal-01740892⟩