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Prior to the widespread adoption of unit trains and the rise of intermodal, most traffic moved in “loose car” or “manifest” service (also called “car load traffic”). In this type of service, sets of railcars are grouped together on a temporary basis into “blocks.”
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Van Dyke, C., Meketon, M. (2015). Railway Blocking Process. In: Patty, B. (eds) Handbook of Operations Research Applications at Railroads. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 222. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7571-3_5
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