Efficient scheduling of traffic on a railway line

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 587-602

  Medanic, J ^a   Dorfman, M J ^b  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

algorithms; Discrete event dynamic systems; optimization; scheduling; train control

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS;

BUILDING BLOCKES; DISCRETE EVENT DYNAMIC SYSTEMS; DISCRETE EVENT MODELS; EFFICIENT SCHEDULING; LOCAL STATE; OPTIMISATIONS; RAILWAY LINE; RAILWAY NETWORK; STATE-DEPENDENT; TRAINS CONTROL;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 0036439098     PISSN: 00223239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021255214371     Document Type: Article

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