A personal-computer assisted decision support system for private versus common carrier selection

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 34E, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 229-241

  Min, Hokey ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Freight transport; Transportation mode

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

COMMON CARRIERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; LOGISTIC MANAGERS; MODEL BASE; PROCESS-MODELS; STANDALONE SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTATION MODE; WHAT-IF SCENARIOS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION MODE;

EID: 0032462631     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1366-5545(98)00006-4     Document Type: Article

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