RTRI REPORT January 1999

Development of Station Shunting Scheduling System

Norio TOMII, Li Jian ZHOU, Naoto FUKUMURA


  We have developed a system called S4 - Station Shunting Scheduling System. Shunting schedules at railway stations are now scheduled manually by experts. It takes hours to make the shunting schedule by hand, as it requires quite a complicated work in which various physical and logical constraints have to be considered. S4 provides unique functions such as automatic adjustment of shunting time, checking crossover conflicts and others to facilitate shunting scheduling. This paper describes the functions of S4 and a Shunting Scheduling Network, we have introduced to realize the functions of S4.



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