Multi-agent routing and scheduling for railway track inspection

<p dir="ltr">This thesis explores innovative solutions for complex railway routing and scheduling challenges. Inspired by the problem of inspecting railway tracks using multiple instrumented wagons, the research identifies a few real-world routing and scheduling problems, formulates them in optimization frameworks, and develops novel variants of the state-of-the-art algorithms to solve them. This research yields optimal or near-optimal solutions for the optimization problems, ensuring efficient resource utilization and on-time operations. These findings have practical implications for enhancing railway transportation efficiency and resilience.</p>