A solvable queueing network model for railway networks and its validation and applications for the Netherlands

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 30-51

  Huisman, Tijs ^a,c   Boucherie, Richard J ^b   Van Dijk, Nico M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Innovation   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Queueing networks; Railways; Transportation

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAILROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; SCHEDULING;

RAILWAY NETWORKS;

QUEUEING NETWORKS;

EID: 0036794824     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(01)00269-7     Document Type: Article

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