TY - JOUR
T1 - Analysis and evaluation of double-ended flat-shunted yard performance employing two yard crews
AU - Marinov, Marin
AU - Viegas, José
PY - 2011/5/9
Y1 - 2011/5/9
N2 - The yards are facilities that reassemble inbound freight train cars into outbound freight trains. These facilities play an essential role for providing the freight transportation service by rail, however, they are nonrevenue producing elements for the railway freight companies and therefore keeping them unutilized is not acceptable. In this paper, a double-ended flat-shunted yard has been studied by discrete-event-based simulations. The results obtained demonstrate significantly low utilization levels of the subsystems of this yard. Therefore, a possible reduction of floating resources is investigated.
AB - The yards are facilities that reassemble inbound freight train cars into outbound freight trains. These facilities play an essential role for providing the freight transportation service by rail, however, they are nonrevenue producing elements for the railway freight companies and therefore keeping them unutilized is not acceptable. In this paper, a double-ended flat-shunted yard has been studied by discrete-event-based simulations. The results obtained demonstrate significantly low utilization levels of the subsystems of this yard. Therefore, a possible reduction of floating resources is investigated.
KW - Double-ended flat-shunted yard
KW - Event-based simulation
KW - Freight trains
KW - Railway freight transportation
KW - Yard performance
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UR - https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29TE.1943-5436.0000218
U2 - 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000218
DO - 10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000218
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79955845080
SN - 0733-947X
VL - 137
SP - 319
EP - 326
JO - Journal of Transportation Engineering
JF - Journal of Transportation Engineering
IS - 5
ER -