DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF COMPUTER MODELS FOR ANALYSIS OF LONG RANGE PLANNING DECISIONS AT SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY

Railroad has used series of computer models dealing both with strategic, corporate problems, and with operational investment problems; paper gives description of planning problems that typically have been encountered and describes two most important computer models used--operating cost model and investment analysis model; implementation and use of models is discussed.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Fall Joint Computer Conference, San Francisco, California, December 9-11, 1968.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Federation of Information Processing Societies

  1815 North Lynn Street
  Arlington, VA  United States  22109
• Authors:
  • Anderson, E P
  • McAfee, R K
  • Seelenfreund, A
• Conference:
  • AFIPS Conference Proceedings
• Publication Date: 0

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 431-9
• Serial:
  • Volume: 33 P
  • Issue Number: t 1

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Management; Mathematical models; Simulation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Industrial management; Models
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00037174
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 20 2003 12:00AM