A Reservations-Based Railway Network Operations Management System

Kraft, Edwin Reese

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A Reservations-Based Railway Network Operations Management System

1998-01-01
By Kraft, Edwin Reese

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Creators:

Kraft, Edwin Reese
Corporate Creators:

University of Pennsylvania
Subject/TRT Terms:

Algorithms Bids Financial Yield Freight And Passenger Services Freight Cars Monitoring Optimization Railroads Reservation Systems Schedules And Scheduling Service Monitoring Shipments Simulation Subgradient Algorithm Tabu Search Transportation Operations Yield Management
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Thesis
Right Statement:

Public Domain
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Corporate Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania
Abstract:

A shipment scheduling and operational control method is developed and tested, to help railroads become more competitive for high revenue, service sensitive freight. A bid-price based, profit maximizing revenue management approach is proposed to allow a rail carrier to develop achievable and market sensitive quotations of delivery time for new shipments calling in. Bid prices are derived using a subgradient step size algorithm; a modified shortest path procedure is used to solve the decomposed subproblems.
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Public Domain, except where noted in the document.
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PDF
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US Transportation Collection
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