PROCEEDINGS MANUAL. FREIGHT CAR UTILIZATION SEMINAR

This Seminar, held in Chicago in November 1976, indicates what the research of the Freight Car Utilization Research Demonstration Program had produced to that time. The Subjects: Preliminary Lessons of Freight Car Utilization Research; Improving Utilization: Buffer Storage, Freight Car Scheduling from an Operating Man's View, Improving Car Control; Strategy for Utilization Improvement; Fleet Sizing; Utilization Performance Evaluation; Car Movement and Distribution.

• Corporate Authors:

  Association of American Railroads

  50 F Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001-1564

  Federal Railroad Administration

  Office of Policy and Program Development, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1976-12

Media Info

• Pagination: 180 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Car supply (Railroads); Car utilization (Railroads); Development; Fleet management; Freight cars; Freight transportation; Loading and unloading; Management; Management information systems; Planning; Research; Traffic managers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Research and development; Shippers
• Old TRIS Terms: Fleet planning; Freight car shortage; Management planning
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00148597
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Association of American Railroads
• Report/Paper Numbers: AAR-R-253 Proceeding, FRA/OPPD-77/4
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 15 1977 12:00AM