In this work, we consider the integrated problem of locomotive scheduling and driver assignment in rail freight … decomposition approach which decomposes the problem into a master locomotive scheduling problem and a subproblem for driver …

The locomotive scheduling problem (or the locomotive assignment problem) is to assign a consist (a set of locomotives … their destinations. Locomotive scheduling problems are among the most important problems in railroad scheduling. In this … paper, we report the results of a study of the locomotive scheduling problem faced by CSX Transportation, a major US …