LOCOMOTIVE PARKING MANAGEMENT TOOL

摘要

A system for managing locomotives in a railyard including a parking yard (52) and a service yard (60), based on possible future states of the parking yard and the service yard. The system (10) includes a computer (14) and utilizes an algorithm that enumerates possible present locomotive placement options, enumerates possible future railyard states arising from each possible present locomotive placement option, examines each possible future railyard states.