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Minimum Number of Platforms Problem
A list of arrival and departure time is given. Now the problem is to find the minimum number of platforms are required for the railway as no train waits.
By sorting all timings in sorted order, we can find the solution easily, it will be easy to track when the train has arrived but not left the station.
The time complexity of this problem is O(n Log n).
Input and Output
Input:
Lists of arrival time and departure time.
Arrival: {900, 940, 950, 1100, 1500, 1800}
Departure: {910, 1200, 1120, 1130, 1900, 2000}
Output:
Minimum Number of Platforms Required: 3Algorithm
minPlatform(arrival, departure, int n)
Input − The list of arrival time and the departure times, and the number of items in the list
Output − The number of minimum platforms is needed to solve the problem.
Begin sort arrival time list, and departure time list platform := 1 and minPlatform := 1 i := 1 and j := 0 for elements in arrival list ‘i’ and departure list ‘j’ do if arrival[i] < departure[j] then platform := platform + 1 i := i+1 if platform > minPlatform then minPlatform := platform else platform := platform – 1 j := j + 1 done return minPlatform End
Example
#include<iostream>
#include<algorithm>
using namespace std;
int minPlatform(int arrival[], int departure[], int n) {
sort(arrival, arrival+n); //sort arrival and departure times
sort(departure, departure+n);
int platform = 1, minPlatform = 1;
int i = 1, j = 0;
while (i < n && j < n) {
if (arrival[i] < departure[j]) {
platform++; //platform added
i++;
if (platform > minPlatform) //if platform value is greater, update minPlatform
minPlatform = platform;
} else {
platform--; //delete platform
j++;
}
}
return minPlatform;
}
int main() {
int arrival[] = {900, 940, 950, 1100, 1500, 1800};
int departure[] = {910, 1200, 1120, 1130, 1900, 2000};
int n = 6;
cout << "Minimum Number of Platforms Required: " << minPlatform(arrival, departure, n);
}Output
Minimum Number of Platforms Required: 3
Updated on: 15-Jun-2020
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