Road maintenance planning using network flow modelling

Yang, Chao; Remenyte-Prescott, Rasa; Andrews, John

Abstract

This paper presents a road maintenance planning model that can be used to balance out maintenance cost and road user cost, since performing road maintenance at night can be convenient for road users but costly for highway agency. Based on the platform of the network traffic flow modelling, the traffic through the worksite and its adjacent road links is evaluated. Thus, maintenance arrangements at a worksite can be optimized considering the overall network performance. In addition, genetic algorithms are used for maintenance planning in order to find the best maintenance arrangements for the worksites. The key variables in the optimization model involve the starting time of maintenance works during the day, their duration, the duration of the break during the maintenance work and traffic signal controls at the worksite.

Citation

Yang, C., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Andrews, J. (in press). Road maintenance planning using network flow modelling. IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, https://doi.org/10.1093/imaman/dpv031

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 21, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Nov 13, 2015
• Deposit Date: Jul 21, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 21, 2016
• Journal: IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
• Print ISSN: 1471-678X
• Electronic ISSN: 1471-6798
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/imaman/dpv031
• Keywords: maintenance planning; network flow modelling; genetic algorithms
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/767023
• Publisher URL: http://imaman.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/11/12/imaman.dpv031
• Additional Information: This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in IMA Journal of Management Mathematics following peer review. The version of record Chao Yang, Rasa Remenyte-Prescott, and John Andrews; Road maintenance planning using network flow modelling; IMA J Management Math 2015 : dpv031v1-dpv031 is available online at: http://imaman.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/11/12/imaman.dpv031