North and South Railroads in Iowa (pt. 5)

North–north, North–south, and South–south Relations

The conservation reserve in south-central Iowa

Railroads and American Law

A Discrete Event Simulation for the Crew Assignment Process in North American Freight Railroads

This paper introduces a discrete event simulation for crew assignments and crew movements as a result of train traffic, labor rules, government regulations and optional crew schedules. The software is part of a schedule development system, FRCOS (Freight Rail Crew Optimization System), that was co-developed by Canadian National (CN) Rail and Circadian Technologies, Inc. The simulation allows ve...

North-south Trade in Ireland

We address the question of whether the volume of manufacturing trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is more or less than might be expected in the light of international experience. We estimate a gravity equation for bilateral manufacturing trade between 28 developed countries from 1970 to 1992. Using the results as benchmark, we find that North-South trade in Ireland is gr...