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- Title
BARKER-SHARON LAWS OF TRUCK DYNAMICS.
- Authors
Barker, Henry H.; Sharon, Ed M.
- Abstract
The article informs that researchers have been involved in extensive Management Science efforts to support the operations of the American Natural Resources Freight System, a relatively new offspring of American Natural Resources Corp, which is now the seventh largest trucking company in the nation. Their first assignment was to develop better understanding of operational problems from a strategic perspective; they were asked to propose and develop computerized planning decision aids to allow periodic review and fine tuning of strategic decisions. During the course of this work, they began to develop brief statements which characterized our quantitative observations and were used to communicate such observations to management. They found them particularly useful when they had to explain conclusions that were in contrast to management intuition. Over a period of time, these hypotheses were formulated and reformulated until they reached something of the form of the Laws of Thermodynamics.
- Subjects
ENVIRONMENTAL law; AMERICAN Natural Resources Corp.; TRANSPORTATION; STRATEGIC planning; HAULING tests; THERMODYNAMIC laws
- Publication
Interfaces, 1981, Vol 11, Issue 5, p33
- ISSN
0092-2102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/inte.11.5.33