QUAM: A Simulation Model for the Navy QUICKTRANS System User's Manual,
Abstract
QUAM, the acronym for QUICKTRANS Airlift Model, is a computerized simulation of the Naval Quick Response Transportation System (QUICKTRANS) developed to permit forecasting of system operating costs, vehicle utilization, and route scheduling load factors for proposed routes and vehicles. This simulation, written in FORTRAN 4, accepts (as input data) terminals, routes, cargo quantities, numbers of vehicles by type, 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; utilization for both vehicles (by type) and routes; costs per ton-mile, ton-milage, and both route and system operating costs. The output can provide the entire histographic record and/or management summaries in desired formats for information at terminals, along route segments, routes and for the entire system. The simulation has been used in the analysis of the requirements for servicing an expanded QUICKTRANS network. This report describes the model's logic elements and all the inputs needed by QUAM.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA033535
Entities
People
- Raymond E. Melton