The Canadian Pacific Railway transforms operations by using models to develop its operating plans

Interfaces

Volumn 34, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2004, Pages 5-14

  Ireland, Phil ^a   Case, Rod ^a   Fallis, John ^a   Van Dyke, Carl ^b   Kuehn, Jason ^b   Meketon, Marc ^b  

^a Canadian Pacific Railway Limited   (Canada)

^b Multimodal Applied Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis: applications; Transportation: freight materials handling

Indexed keywords

EID: 2642547930     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1030.0055     Document Type: Review

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