Enlarging the cleaning capacity of the NS

This thesis is about enlargening the cleaning capacity of the NS. NS is the biggest public transport company in the Netherlands. The majority of the dutch citizens knows the NS. NS transports daily more than one million people. As you can imagine every traveler would appreciate a clean train. Currently, every day about 5% of the trains can not be cleaned because of a lack in the cleaning capacity. Right now, all the activities regarding the daily cleaning are done by night. This research focusses on shifting the workload from night to day. To do so the timetable of the NS is analyzed. This analysis creates insights into the cleaning possibilities by day and the potential of starting to clean trains in day time.