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Empty Railcar Repositioning Subject to Travel Time Uncertainty
The empty railcars repositioning strategy generates no income but is crucial for a good service quality, it should then satisfy two main objectives: fullling the customer demand and generating as little expense as possible. Moreover, because of breakdown or heavy traffic, variation on travel times …
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Tactical Network Flow and Discrete Optimization Models and Algorithms for the Empty Railcar Transportation Problem
… multilevel autorack management was to load the railcars at various origin points, ship them to the destination ramps, unload them, and then return each car to the loading point where it originated. Recognizing the inefficiency of such a practice with respect to the fleet size that had to be …