A two-level approach to the problem of rail freight car fleet composition

Transport

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Bojovic, Nebojsa ^a   Boskovic, Branislav ^a   Milenkovic, Milos ^a   Sunjic, Aleksandar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

AHP; Fuzzy; Multi objective optimization; Rail freight car

Indexed keywords

FLEET OPERATIONS; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPERATING COSTS; RAILROADS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

FLEET COMPOSITION; FUZZY; OPTIMAL STRUCTURES; PUBLIC ENTERPRISE; RAIL FREIGHT CARS; SERBIAN RAILWAYS; TRANSPORT MARKET; TWO-LEVEL APPROACH;

FREIGHT CARS;

EID: 77954735658     PISSN: 16484142     EISSN: 16483480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/transport.2010.23     Document Type: Article

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