Browsing Working Papers by Subject "Transportation"

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    • Computer based itinerary planning on transportation systems 

      Raghuram, G.; Shobana, R. (2010-03-22)
      Customers seek to know the best way of getting from an origin to a destination on a transportation system. Knowing the best way, i.e, itinerary planning, becomes all the more important when there are varied choices depending ...

    • Lost size model with discrete transportation costs 

      Gupta, Omprakash K.; Rao, Poornachandra P. (2010-03-24)
      The classical Harris-Wilson inventory model does not explicitly account for the costs incurred in transporting goods from the supplier to the buyer. Either such costs are assumed to be fixed and considered part of the ...

    • Lower bound on fleet-size in variable-schedule fleet-size problem 

      Ankolekar, Suresh; Patel, Nitin R. (2010-03-14)
      This paper discusses an approach to compute a lower bound on fleet-size in variable-schedule fleet-size problem. The lower bound is computed in two stages. In stage one, a fixed-schedule fleet-size problem is solved for a ...

    • Minimizing Customer Waiting Costs for Rental Vehicle Providers using Threshold Reservation Policies 

      Pazour, Jennifer A.; Roy, Debjit (2013-11-23)
      Vehicle rental providers o er di erentiated services to reserve and walk-in customers. In this research, we study one such service di erentiation strategy, a vehicle threshold policy, which is to hold vehicles for reserve ...

    • Safety management in transportation 

      Mathew, Dilip; Chhokar, Jagdeep S.; Jain, Rekha; Raghuram, G. (2010-03-21)
      This paper presents a framework for identification and analysis of issues in Safety Management in Transportation. The paper analysis Safety Management in the three modes of transport namely Road, Rail and Air. Safety ...