An algorithm developed to make daily station shunting schedules is introduced. To make daily station shunting schedules involves adjustment of arrival/departure times of regular trains and change of their arrival/departure tracks, which is quite difficult to perform by computers. We will introduce an algorithm to store daily station shunting schedules that were performed in the past and to make daily station shunting schedules using the stored past schedules as precedents. We have confirmed the effectiveness of the algorithm through several experiments using actual data.

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