A Novel Hybrid Heuristic-Reinforcement Learning Optimization Approach for a Class of Railcar Shunting Problems
arXiv:2603.05579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Railcar shunting is a core planning task in freight railyards, where yard planners need to disassemble and reassemble groups of railcars to form outbound trains. Classification tracks with access from one side only can be considered as stack structures, where railcars are added and removed from only one end, leading to a last-in-first-out (LIFO) retrieval order. In contrast, two-sided tracks function like queue structures, allowing railcars to be added from one end and […]