Planning Australian freight rail operations: An overview

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 31, Issue 4 PART A, 1997, Pages 335-348

  Ferreira, L ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREIGHT RAIL OPERATIONS PLANNING; TRACK MAINTENANCE PLANNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; MAINTENANCE; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; RAILROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SCHEDULING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

FREIGHT TRANSPORT; MODELLING APPROACH; RAILWAY FREIGHT; TRACK MAINTENANCE; TRANSPORT PLANNING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0030615841     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0965-8564(96)00026-2     Document Type: Article

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