Optimization through simulation of waterway transportation investments

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1620, 1998, Pages 11-16

  Ting, Ching Jung ^a   Schonfeld, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST ACCOUNTING; LOCKS (ON WATERWAYS); OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

INVESTMENTS;

WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0032131245     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1620-03     Document Type: Article

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