Modeling train movements through complex rail networks

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-75

  Lu, Quan ^a,c   Dessouky, Maged ^a,c   Leachman, Robert C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Deadlock; Dispatching; Modeling; Trains

Indexed keywords

DEADLOCK; DISPATCHING; RAIL NETWORKS; TRAINS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; GRAPH THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

RAILS;

EID: 3042554079     PISSN: 10493301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/974734.974737     Document Type: Article

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