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This project develops optimization-based policies for railroad systems and also develops a simulation support system.

Motivated by the conversion of many suppliers from prepaid to collect shipping terms, this project identifies opportunities to leverage synnergy between collect suppliers. In particular, we outline a methodology to synchronize vendors in the same geographic areas so they can flow through consolidation centers, and a methodology to pool vendors to save on transportation costs.

The objective of this project is to analyze existing tool of a process, compare them to other existing tool in industry, make improvement recommendations, and determine if approach could be used to evaluate new performance based logistics (PBL) contracts.