Abstract In the last few years, growing attention has been given to the cost savings potential of the specialized freight car pool concept. Under this concept, a fleet of single-purpose freight cars are pooled at many loading points, and the cars emptied at unloading terminals can be sent back to any loading point in order to reduce empty car miles and time. As part of a continuing effort to improve the car dispatching method for this concept, this paper offers an improvement to the traditional linear programming transportation problem approach, incorporating daily variations of empty car supply and demand characteristics in the model. The proposed method, therefore, allocates cars between supply and demand points with the dispatching date specified, enabling the dispatcher to make daily car disposition decisions. It can incorporate both the travel distance cost and inventory cost of empty cars at terminals in the objective. If the holding of empty vehicles at the terminals for future dispatch is allowed, the problem is structured as a transshipment problem in which the overnight storage is the transshipment point.


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    Title :

    Empty freight car dispatching model under freight car pool concept


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    Publication date :

    1984-02-06


    Size :

    17 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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