A rail routine model, INTERLINE, has been developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to investigate potential routes for transporting radioactive materials. In Version 5.0, the INTERLINE routing algorithms have been enhanced to include the ability to predict alternative routes, barge routes, and population statistics for any route. The INTERLINE railroad network is essentially a computerized rail atlas describing the US railroad system. All rail lines, with the exception of industrial spurs, are included in the network. Inland waterways and deep water routes along with their interchange points with the US railroadsystem are also included. The network contains over 15,000 rail and barge segments (links) and over 13,000 stations, interchange points, ports, and other locations (nodes). The INTERLINE model has been converted to operate on an IBM-compatible personal computer. At least a 286 computer with a hard disk containing approximately 6 MB of free space is recommended. Enhanced program performance will be obtained by using arandom-access memory drive on a 386 or 486 computer. (ERA citation 18:022900)


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    Title :

    INTERLINE 5.0 -- An expanded railroad routing model: Program description, methodology, and revised user's manual


    Contributors:
    P. E. Johnson (author) / D. S. Joy (author) / D. B. Clarke (author) / J. M. Jacobi (author)

    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    92 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English