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Lean railroading for improving railroad classification terminal performance: bottleneck management methods

Dirnberger et al., 2007

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16018343121989512601
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Dirnberger J
Barkan C
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Transportation Research Record

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Although much attention has been focused on the growth of intermodal traffic over the past decade, manifest freight (or carload) traffic is a major revenue generator for railroads. The high potential profitability of carload traffic suggests that railroads should try to grow this …
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