(Apologies for multiple postings)
The School of Computing at the University of Leeds, UK, ranked in the top 10 for research impact in REF2014, is making a substantial investment in 6 new fully funded PhD Scholarships (See http://www.findaphd.com/search/PhDDetails.aspx?CAID=2707 ). Scheduling optimisation is one of the research themes supported in this initiative.
Applications are invited from UK/EU students for PhD research in the scheduling of train vehicle resources. After a train timetable has been fixed, train vehicles are assigned to cover all the work involved. The problem is complex and difficult because train units have to be coupled and decoupled in order to distribute and optimise the vehicle resources against different levels of passenger demands across the network. There are also many other practical issues in the problem such as multiple depots and vehicle types, station track and platform layouts, route preferences, etc.
Leeds already has an EPSRC funded 3-year (2015-18) project on this research theme, which employs two Research Fellows and the project is in collaboration with First Rail and Tracsis Plc. The new PhD student will research along with this team. Whereas the EPSRC project is mainly focussed on a mathematical network flow approach, this PhD project will investigate an 2-opt heuristics approach previously employed for bus vehicle scheduling or other meta-heuristics approaches.
This specific research theme is led by Dr Raymond Kwan - those interested should contact him:
Dr Raymond Kwan
Research Postgraduate Admissions Tutor
Senior Lecturer, School of Computing
University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT
T: +44 113 34 35760
E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
(Application Deadline is 22nd March 2015)
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