  Due to increasing railway use, the capacity at railway yards and maintenance
locations is becoming limiting to accommodate existing rolling stock. To reduce
capacity issues at maintenance locations during nighttime, railway undertakings
consider performing more daytime maintenance, but the choice at which locations
personnel needs to be stationed for daytime maintenance is not straightforward.
Among other things, it depends on the planned rolling stock circulation and the
maintenance activities that need to be performed. This paper presents the
Maintenance Location Choice Problem (MLCP) and provides a Mixed Integer Linear
Programming model for this problem. The model demonstrates that for a
representative rolling stock circulation from the Dutch railways a substantial
amount of maintenance activities can be performed during daytime. Also, it is
shown that the location choice delivered by the model is robust under various
time horizons and rolling stock circulations. Moreover, the running time for
optimizing the model is considered acceptable for planning purposes.
