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Title:The Use of Computerized Railroad Costing Programs in Transportation Management and Analysis
Authors:Denver Tolliver
Publication Date:Feb 1985
Report #:SP-69
TRID #:01850994
Keywords:algorithms, cost accounting, data analysis, freight transportation, railroads
Type:Research Report – Staff Papers

Abstract

This paper highlights some of the principal uses of rail cost data in transportation management and analysis, and describes a computer costing algorithm which can assist transportation managers, shippers, and policy analysts in the estimation of railroad service costs.

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