Predicting on-time performance in scheduled railroad operations: Methodology and application to train scheduling

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 279-295

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

^a USAir   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer assisted dispatching; Railroads; Stochastic scheduling

Indexed keywords

FREIGHT TRANSPORT; RAIL TRANSPORT; SERVICE RELIABILITY; TRAVEL TIME;

USA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAILROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL; RANDOM PROCESSES; SCHEDULING;

COMPUTER ASSISTED DISPATCHING; STOCHASTIC SCHEDULING;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0031597057     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-8564(97)00009-8     Document Type: Article

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