Solving a multi periodic stochastic model of the rail-car fleet sizing by two-stage optimization formulation

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1164-1174

  Sayarshad, Hamid Reza ^a   Tavakkoli Moghaddam, Reza ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Freight car allocation; Rail car fleet sizing; Stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; FLEET SIZES; FLEET SIZING; FREIGHT CAR ALLOCATION; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; RAIL NETWORKS; SOLUTION METHODOLOGY; SOLUTION PROCEDURE; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATIONS; TIME PERIODS; TWO STAGE; TWO STAGE OPTIMIZATIONS;

DECISION MAKING; FREIGHT CARS; OPTIMIZATION; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

FLEET OPERATIONS;

EID: 74149083741     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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