@article{6f69051146634f17854db476a0fd84d5,
title = "Short-term manpower planning for MRT carriage maintenance under mixed deterministic and stochastic demands",
abstract = "The purpose of this research is to develop two manpower supply planning models and a solution algorithm for mass rapid transit carriage maintenance under mixed deterministic and stochastic demands. These models are formulated as mixed integer programs that are characterized as NP-hard. We employ problem decomposition techniques, coupled with the CPLEX mathematical programming solver, to develop an algorithm that is capable of efficiently solving the problems. The models and the method used currently in actual operations are evaluated by a simulation-based evaluation method. Finally, we perform a case study using real operating data from a Taiwan MRT maintenance facility. The preliminary results are good, showing that the models could be useful for planning carriage maintenance manpower supply.",
keywords = "Algorithm, Carriage maintenance, Manpower supply, Mixed integer program, Stochastic demands",
author = "Chen, {Chia Hung} and Shangyao Yan and Miawjane Chen",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgements This research was supported by a grant (NSC-95-2211-E-008-164) from the National Science Council of Taiwan. We would like to thank the Taiwan MRT for providing the test data and its valuable opinions. We also thank Tsung-Sheng Yeh for helping collect and analyze the data. Finally, we would like to thank the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions which have helped to greatly improve the presentation of this paper.",
year = "2010",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1007/s10479-010-0689-y",
language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",
volume = "181",
pages = "67--88",
journal = "Annals of Operations Research",
issn = "0254-5330",
number = "1",
}