Article ID: | iaor20102945 |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 80 |
End Page Number: | 82 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2009 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Hurkens Cor A J, Woeginger Gerhard J, Eggermont Christian, Modelski Maciej |
Keywords: | computational analysis |
We derive several results on the computational complexity of train rearrangement problems in railway optimization. Our main result states that arranging a departing train in a depot is NP-complete, even if each track in the depot contains only two cars.