A PROCESS FUNCTION FOR RAIL LINEHAUL OPERATIONS,

Abstract

Like many productive activities, rail freight transportation may be divided into various processes. One division that has been used before is: (1) assembly, (2) linehaul, (3) loading and unloading. This paper is concerned with the second of these exclusively. The aim is to develop a production function for the linehaul process (hereafter called a linehaul process function). Such a process function is interesting in its own right: with it one may investigate various productivity relationships, isoquants, and returns to scale for the linehaul process. The process function may also be used to examine the behavior of linehaul costs. In addition, it would be possible to synthesize railway costs if process functions for all three processes were available. In this paper, all but the last of these is attempted.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0662338

Entities

People

  • Joseph S. Desalvo

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly
  • Assembly Lines
  • Cooperation
  • Econometrics
  • Freight Transportation
  • Manufacturing
  • Mass Production
  • Production
  • Productivity
  • Transportation
  • Unloading

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Systems Analysis and Design