Minimising costs in scheduling railway track maintenance

Advances in Transport

Volumn 7, Issue , 2000, Pages 895-902

  Lake, M ^a   Ferreira, L ^a   Murray, M ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; PERSONNEL; RAILROAD TRACKS; RAILROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

OPERATING COSTS; PERSONNEL ROSTERING; SAFETY ASPECTS; TRACK MAINTENANCE;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0012189991     PISSN: 1462608X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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