Modelling the number and location of sidings on a single line railway

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 209-220

  Higgins, A ^a   Kozan, E ^a   Ferreira, L ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC TRAIN SCHEDULE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAILROAD TRAFFIC CONTROL; SCHEDULING;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0042545904     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0305-0548(96)00042-1     Document Type: Article

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