Name: PEDRO HENRIQUE DEL CARO DAHER
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 01/08/2017
Summary: One of the main challenges for organizations lies in their ability to make the right and consistent choices, accorded to their strategic planning (VARGAS, 2010). Considering this, investing in the right projects, that will increase the company profits, is essential to reach companys long term goals and business success. In case of railways, the need to make the right decisions is even more important, since the projects implementation can take long periods and directly influence the operations and assets availability. Sustaining projects selection is configured as a classic optimization problem and one of the most used techniques in this case is Goal Programming, a multi-criteria analysis technique. This document will present a Weighted Goal Programming model, implemented on electronic sheet software Solver add-in, to select projects of a sustaining railway portfolio. The results achieved shows that the model is an important support tool for decision taking and with the necessary adjustments, it can be used to prioritize projects of other natures.
Key words: Goal Programming, Railway Transportation, Projects Selection, Portfolio Management.
