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| Author: | Cochran, J. K. Lin, L. |
| Title: | Application of computer simulation to freight transport systems |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society
1989 : MAY, VOL. 40:5, p. 433-441 |
| Index terms: | SIMULATION MODELS COMPUTERS FREIGHT TRANSPORT MAIL SURVEYS TRAFFIC |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The selection of an appropriate simulation model structure in a transportation project is reported. Multistage mail surveys are applied to a sample of trucking companies as the data-collection technique. By reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of the discussed modelling approaches, it is found that the advantages of flexibility and short length in programming of discrete-event simulation can be combined with the link-based conditional probability branching routeing logic. Since the simulation program contains neither network knowledge nor freight-flow data, the simulation model is a generic traffic-routeing processor using link-based conditional branching logic. |
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