Equation 9 · Part 1 · The Logistics Tail: Sustainment as the Binding Constraint on Organised Force
Symbol r_max
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ax is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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ax is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
Railways broke the radius. A locomotive burns coal or oil rather than the cargo it hauls, so the self-consumption term that produced collapses toward zero along the line of rail. What railways did not do was remove the constraint. They relocated it — from the whole length of the road to the points where load has to change carrier.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [5] The Standardization of Track Gauge on North American Railways, 1830-1890 ↗
- [6] An action plan for EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes to facilitate Ukraine's agricultural export and bilateral trade with the EU ↗
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