Dynamic empty car management in railyards
Dynamic empty car management in railyards
This paper is concerned with accelerating the flow of empty cars in a major classification railyard in North America. Due to fluctations in inbound traffic, empty cars experience long delays at the yard. Such delays can be prevented by dynamic car reassignments. We describe a procedure using a sliding time window in order to reduce the time that empty cars spend in the yard and present the associated computational results.
Bektas, Tolga
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Crainic, Teodor Gabriel
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5 November 2006
Bektas, Tolga
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Crainic, Teodor Gabriel
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Bektas, Tolga and Crainic, Teodor Gabriel
(2006)
Dynamic empty car management in railyards.
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA.
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This paper is concerned with accelerating the flow of empty cars in a major classification railyard in North America. Due to fluctations in inbound traffic, empty cars experience long delays at the yard. Such delays can be prevented by dynamic car reassignments. We describe a procedure using a sliding time window in order to reduce the time that empty cars spend in the yard and present the associated computational results.
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Published date: 5 November 2006
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The linked CIRRELT paper is an extended version of that delivered at the INFORMS Annual Meeting
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INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA, 2006-11-05
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Local EPrints ID: 51378
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/51378
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Tolga Bektas
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Teodor Gabriel Crainic
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