TORS: A train unit shunting and servicing simulator

Jacobus G.M. Van Der Linden; Jesse Mulderij; Bob Huisman; Joris W. Den Ouden; Marjan Van Den Akker; Han Hoogeveen; Mathijs M. De Weerdt

TORS: A train unit shunting and servicing simulator

Jacobus G.M. Van Der Linden, Jesse Mulderij, Bob Huisman, Joris W. Den Ouden, Marjan Van Den Akker, Han Hoogeveen, Mathijs M. De Weerdt

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2021
Publisher	International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
Pages	1773-1775
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781713832621
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2021 - Virtual, Online Duration: 3 May 2021 → 7 May 2021

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS
Volume	3
ISSN (Print)	1548-8403
ISSN (Electronic)	1558-2914

Conference

Conference	20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2021
City	Virtual, Online
Period	3/05/21 → 7/05/21

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care
Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

Event-based simulation
Multi-Agent Path Finding
Railway Operations
TORS
Train Unit Shunting and Servicing
Train Unit Shunting Problem

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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. In 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2021 (pp. 1773-1775). (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS; Vol. 3). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).

Van Der Linden, Jacobus G.M. ; Mulderij, Jesse ; Huisman, Bob et al. / TORS : A train unit shunting and servicing simulator. 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2021. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS), 2021. pp. 1773-1775 (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS).

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