Freight service design for an Italian railways company

Management Science

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Railways transportation, Service network design, Tabu search

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Freight service design for an Italian railways company. / Campetella, Marco; Lulli, Guglielmo; Pietropaoli, Ugo et al.
6th Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways, ATMOS 2006. Vol. 5 2006.

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review

Harvard

Campetella, M, Lulli, G, Pietropaoli, U & Ricciardi, N 2006, Freight service design for an Italian railways company. in 6th Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways, ATMOS 2006. vol. 5, 6th Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways, ATMOS 2006, Zurich, Switzerland, 14/09/06.

APA

Campetella, M., Lulli, G., Pietropaoli, U., & Ricciardi, N. (2006). Freight service design for an Italian railways company. In 6th Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways, ATMOS 2006 (Vol. 5)

Vancouver

Campetella M, Lulli G, Pietropaoli U, Ricciardi N. Freight service design for an Italian railways company. In 6th Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways, ATMOS 2006. Vol. 5. 2006

Author

Campetella, Marco ; Lulli, Guglielmo ; Pietropaoli, Ugo et al. / Freight service design for an Italian railways company. 6th Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways, ATMOS 2006. Vol. 5 2006.

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