QUEST: A Simulation Model for the Navy QUICKTRANS System User's Manual,
Abstract
QUEST, the acronym for QUICKTRANS Economic Simulation and Tabulation, is a computerized simulation of the Naval Quick Response Transporting System (QUICKSTRANS) developed to permit forecasting of system operating costs, vehicle utilization, and route scheduling load factors for proposed routes, time schedules, and vehicles. This event-storing simulation, written in FORTRAN IV, accepts (as input data) terminals, routes and time schedules, seasonal weather variations, cargo types and quantities, numbers of vehicles by type, vehicle maintenance/servicing statements, servicing locations, and unit costs. The execution routines compute the time-distance-tonnage relationships for the stated input data to establish cargo loaded transloaded, and off-loaded at each terminal; queue characteristics; utilizations for both vehicles (by type) and routes; costs per ton-mile, ton-mileage, average distance cargo is moved; and both route and system operating costs. The output can provide the entire histographic record and/or management summaries at specified simulation intervals in desired formats for information at terminals, along route segments, routes and for the entire system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA020536
Entities
People
- Raymond E. Melton