This paper has been motivated by a fleet optimization problem faced by one of the leading European cargo rail companies. The company operates a fleet of more than 100,000 rail cars and annually ...

In this paper we consider a class of job shops with a dispatch area and a machine shop, where operational controls are exercised at the dispatch area as well as at the machine shop. For such dynamic ...

Queueing-Inventory Systems represent a critical integration of queueing theory and inventory management, merging the stochastic nature of customer arrivals and service times with the practical ...

The basic assumptions used in developing the Quick Analysis Tool for Airport Roadways (QATAR) curbside queuing model are presented in the following. Several excellent texts on queuing theory are ...