Predicting on-time line-haul performance in scheduled railroad operations

Transportation Science

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 364-378

  Hallowell, Susan Fraley ^a   Harker, Patrick T ^b  

^a USAir   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE; SCHEDULING;

ON-TIME PERFORMANCES;

RAILROADS;

EID: 0030290801     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.30.4.364     Document Type: Article

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