Determining rail fleet sizes for shipping automobiles

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Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 80-90

  Sherali, Hanif D ^a   Maguire, Lawrence W ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TTX Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Equipment planning; Industries; Transportation shipping facilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040790521     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.30.6.80.11629     Document Type: Article

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