TORS: A Train Unit Shunting and Servicing Simulator
Published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2021
When trains are finished with their transportation tasks during the day, they are moved to a shunting yard where they are routed, parked, cleaned, subject to regular maintenance checks and repaired during the night. The resulting Train Unit Shunting and Servicing problem motivates advanced research in planning and scheduling in general since it integrates several known individually hard problems while incorporating many real-life details. We developed an event-based simulator called TORS (Dutch acronym for Train Shunting and Servicing Simulator), that provides the user with a state and all feasible actions. After an action is picked, TORS calculates the result and the process repeats. This simulator facilitates research into a realistic application of multi-agent path finding.
Recommended citation: Van der Linden, J. G. M., Mulderij, J., Huisman, B., den Ouden, J. W., van den Akker, M., Hoogeveen, H., & de Weerdt, M. M. (2021). "TORS: A Train Unit Shunting and Servicing Simulator." Proceedings of AAMAS-21, 1773-1775.
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