CSX Railway Uses OR to Cash In on Optimized Equipment Distribution

References

• Ahuja R. K., Jha C. K., Liu J. Solving real-life railroad blocking problems. Interfaces (2007) 37(5):404–419Link, Google Scholar
• Cordeau J.-F., Toth P., Vigo D. A survey of optimization models for train routing and scheduling. Transportation Sci. (1998) 32(4):380–404Link, Google Scholar
• Crainic T. G., Gendreau M., Dejax P. Dynamic and stochastic models for the allocation of empty containers. Oper. Res. (1993) 41(1):102–126Link, Google Scholar
• Dejax P. J., Crainic T. G. A review of empty flows and fleet management models in freight transportation. Transportation Sci. (1987) 21(4):227–248Link, Google Scholar
• Gorman M. F. Evaluating the public investment mix in U.S. freight transportation infrastructure. Transportation Res. Part A (2008) 42(1):1–14Crossref, Google Scholar
• Gorman M. F. Statistical estimation of line congestion delay in U.S. freight rail. Transportation Res. Part E (2009) 45(3):446–456Crossref, Google Scholar
• Gorman M. F., Crook K., Sellers D. North American freight rail industry real-time optimized equipment distribution systems: State of the practice. (2009) . Unpublished manuscript, University of Dayton, Dayton, OHGoogle Scholar
• Holmberg K., Joborn M., Lundgren J. T. Improved empty freight car distribution. Transportation Sci. (1998) 32(2):163–173Link, Google Scholar
• Ireland P., Case R., Fallis J., Van Dyke C., Kuehn J., Meketon M. The Canadian Pacific Railway transforms operations by using models to develop its operating plans. Interfaces (2004) 34(1):5–14Link, Google Scholar
• Joborn M. Empty freight car distribution at Swedish Railways—Analysis and optimization modeling. (1995) . Ph.D. thesis, Department of Mathematics, Linkoping University, SwedenGoogle Scholar
• Markowicz B. P., Turnquist M. A. Applying the LP solution to the daily distribution of freight cars. (1990) Presentation, TIMS/ORSA national meeting, Cornell UniversityIthaca, NYGoogle Scholar
• Narisetty A. K., Richard J.-P., Ramcharan D., Murphy D., Minks G., Fuller J. An optimization model for empty freight car assignment at Union Pacific. Interfaces (2008) 38(2):89–102Link, Google Scholar
• Powell W. B., Topaloglu H., Wallace S., Ziemba W. Fleet management. Applications of Stochastic Programming (2005) (Math Programming Society—SIAM Series in Optimization, Philadelphia) 185–215Crossref, Google Scholar
• Powell W. B., Jaillet P., Odoni A., Ball M. O., Magnanti T. L., Monma C. L., Nemhauser G. L. Stochastic and dynamic networks and routing. Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science, Network Routing (1995) 8(North-Holland, Amsterdam) 141–295Google Scholar
• Topaloglu H., Powell W. B. Dynamic programming approximations for stochastic, time-staged integer multicommodity-flow problems. INFORMS J. Comput. (2006) 18(1):31–42Link, Google Scholar
• Turnquist M. A. MOVE-EM: A network optimization model for empty freight car distribution. (1986) . Report, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NYGoogle Scholar
• Turnquist M. A. Economies of scale and network optimization for empty car distribution. (1994) . Technical report, Cornell University, Ithaca, NYGoogle Scholar