Rail freight transportation requires to plan multiple types of resources, in particular the network infrastructure, running times and the locomotives.
This thesis, carried out in partnership with Hexafret (formerly Fret SNCF), focuses on mathematical optimization methods for simultaneously planning these different types of resources.
In this work, we first evaluate the advantages of integrated resource planning versus sequential planning (one types of resources at a time).

We proposed several new approaches to determine efficient integrated plans in reasonable computation times. These methods are, to our knowledge, novel and are shown to be effective in coupling different routing problems.

Jury:
- Paola Pellegrini, Directrice de recherche, Université Gustave Eiffel, Rapporteure
- Frédéric Meunier, Professeur, ENPC, CERMICS, Rapporteur
- Dominique Feillet, Professeur, Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne, Examinateur
- Sourour Elloumi, Professeure, ENSTA ParisTech, CEDRIC, Examinatrice
- Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès, Professeur, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Directeur de thèse
- Juliette Pouzet, Ingénieure, SNCF - DTIPG, Co-encadrante de thèse.