Effective placement of dangerous goods cars in rail yard marshaling operation

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 753-762

  Bagheri, Morteza ^a,b   Saccomanno, F Frank ^a   Fu, Liping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dangerous goods; Derailment; Marshalling; Rail transportation; Rail yard; Risk

Indexed keywords

A-TRAIN; ASSEMBLY PROCESS; DANGEROUS GOODS; LINEAR INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MARSHALLING; MODELLING FRAMEWORK; OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES; OPTIMUM SOLUTION; RAIL CORRIDOR; RAIL TRANSPORTATION; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; SAFETY ISSUES; TRACK SEGMENTS; TRAIN DERAILMENT; TRAIN TRAVEL;

ACCIDENTS; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; GALERKIN METHODS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; RAILROADS;

DERAILMENTS;

LINEAR PROGRAMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAIN; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

EID: 77953530172     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L10-015     Document Type: Article

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