Open AccessCase Article—Louisiana Branch Lines
Author(s) -
Michael F. Gorman
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
transactions on education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.161
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 1532-0545
DOI - 10.1287/ited.2021.0258ca
Subject(s) - structuring , computer science , analytics , focus (optics) , section (typography) , data science , special section , descriptive statistics , operations research , finance , business , engineering , operating system , statistics , physics , mathematics , engineering physics , optics
Louisiana Branch Lines is a struggling Southeast U.S. railroad in just four cities and 12 markets. Their marketing, operations, and finance performance is poor and their departments disjointed. In this customizable, nine-part case, instructors can choose to focus on basic problem structuring and descriptive and predictive statistics, optimization model building, simulation of solutions, or the integration of all of the above. It is based on a real-world case.