Ambient intelligence for freight railroads

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Reason, J M ^a   Crepaldi, R ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; RAILROADS; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT; TRUCKS; VISIBILITY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

AMBIENT INTELLIGENT; BUSINESS TRANSFORMATIONS; EFFICIENT SCHEDULING; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE; PRELIMINARY PERFORMANCE RESULTS; SCHEDULE OPTIMIZATIONS; TRANSPORTATION SCENARIO;

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 77950997851     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 00188646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/JRD.2009.5429019     Document Type: Article

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