Objectives derived from viewing Hazmat shipments as a sequence of independent Bernoulli trials

Transportation Science

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 252-261

  Jin, Honghua ^a   Batta, Rajan ^b  

^a UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

ROUTING;

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0031208648     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.31.3.252     Document Type: Article

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