Open AccessA TWO‐LEVEL APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF RAIL FREIGHT CAR FLEET COMPOSITION
Author(s) -
Nebojša Bojović,
Bogdan Bošković,
Miloš Milenković,
Aleksandar Sunjic
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
transport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1648-4142
pISSN - 1648-3480
DOI - 10.3846/transport.2010.23
Subject(s) - transport engineering , order (exchange) , rail freight transport , traffic management , fleet management , automotive engineering , business , engineering , finance
One of the main objectives for a rail company is to minimize the size of rail freight car fleet in order to reduce operating costs. The problem of rail freight car fleet composition is aimed at determining an optimal structure and size of freight car fleet in order to respond to actual transport demand. A rail company must have capabilities to respond to actual transport demand in case it wants to increase the level of competitiveness on the transport market. Therefore, it is necessary that the structure and size of rail freight car fleet correspond to the structure and size of rail transport demand. In this paper, we developed a two‐level approach to determining an optimal rail freight car fleet composition. This approach has been tested for the case of the Public Enterprise ‘Serbian Railways’ and the obtained results show the potential for a practical application of the proposed approach.