RTRI REPORT July 2000

Development of Automatic Station Shunting Scheduling System

Norio TOMII, Li Jian ZHOU, Naoto FUKUMURA


  An algorithm to make shunting schedules at stations automatically is introduced. At present, shunting are scheduled totally by hand, which naturally takes a lot of labor and time, because so many kinds of conditions have to be considered. Although the shunting scheduling problem can be regarded as a sort of resource constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP), we need to develop new algorithms because it has several unique features which normal RCPSP do not have. We have devised a PERT network model to express a shunting schedule at a station, and then developed an algorithm combining probabilistic local search and PERT. We have confirmed its effectiveness by experiments using practical train schedule data.



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