Estimating freight transportation system capacity, flexibility, and degraded-condition performance

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1966, 2006, Pages 80-87

  Yao, Sun ^a   Turnquist, Mark A ^a   Nozick, Linda K ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; FUNCTIONS; RAILS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; UNITED STATES;

FREIGHT NETWORKS; PATH ENUMERATION; STOCHASTIC TRAFFIC; SYSTEM CAPACITY;

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 33947596728     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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