1. A Tactical Planning Model for Rail Freight Transportation.
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Crainic, Teodor, Jacques-aa. Ferland, and Rousseau, Jean-Marc
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FREIGHT & freightage , *RAILROAD trains , *TRAFFIC engineering , *TRANSPORTATION , *ALGORITHMS , *MATHEMATICAL optimization , *RAILROAD management - Abstract
This paper examines the problems of routing freight traffic, scheduling train services and allocating classification work between yards on a rail network. It describes a general optimization model which takes into account the interactions between these activities and develops global strategies for their management over a medium term planning horizon. A heuristic algorithm developed to solve this nonlinear, mixed-integer multicommodity flow problem is also presented with some computational results based on an example at the Canadian National Railroads. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1984
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