Here is a list of some of MFG Consulting's White Papers. Additional publications and citations are listed below.
| Hub Group Implements a Suite of OR Tools to Improve Its Operations |
| CSX Railway Uses OR to Cash In on Optimized Equipment Distribution |
| Operations Research Helps Reshape Operations Strategy at Standard Register Company |
| A Major Appliance Manufacturer Rethinks Its Inventory Policies for Service Vehicles |
| Intermodal Pricing Model Creates a Network Pricing Perspective at BNSF |
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Publications based on applied work are listed below, by subject area category of research:
Rail:
Logistics:
Production and Operations:
Pedagogical:
Download full curriculum vitae below.
Publications based on applied work are listed below, by subject area category of research:
Rail:
- “Operations Research in Transportation: The state of the Practice” Interfaces, forthcoming. Gorman, MF, et. al.
- Integrating Strategic and Tactical Rolling Stock Models with Cyclical Demand. 2013.
- Journal of Transportation Technologies, 3(2) 162-173
- North American freight rail industry real-time optimized equipment distribution systems: State of the practice. Gorman, M. F., K. Crook, D. Sellers. 2011. Transportation Research, Part C 19 103–114.
- North American freight rail industry real-time optimized equipment distribution systems: State of the practice. Gorman, M. F., K. Crook, D. Sellers. 2011. Transportation Research, Part C 19 103–114
- CSX Railway cashes in on optimization of empty equipment distribution. Gorman, M. F., D. Acharya and D. Sellers. 2010. Interfaces 40(1) 5-16. 2009 Edelman Award Finalist.
- Formulation and solution approaches to the rail maintenance production gang scheduling problem. Gorman, M. F., J. J. Kanet. 2009. Journal of Transportation Engineering Volume 136(8) 701-708.
- Evaluating U.S. county prosecutor performance using DEA: Are disadvantaged counties more inefficient? Gorman, M. F., J. Ruggiero. 2009. European Journal of Law and Economics 27(3) 275.
- Statistical estimation of line congestion delay in U.S. freight rail. 2009. Transportation Research, Part E 45 446-456.
- Evaluating the public investment mix in U.S. freight transportation infrastructure.2008. Transportation Research Part. A 42(1) 1-14.
- Hub group implements a suite of OR tools to improve operations. 2010. Interfaces 40(5) 368–384. 2009 Wagner Award Finalist.
- Intermodal pricing model creates a network pricing perspective at BNSF. 2001. Interfaces 31(4) 37-49.
- An application of dynamic programming to crew balancing at Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. Gorman, M. F., M. Sarrafzadeh. 2000. International Journal of Services Technology and Management 1(2/3) 174-187.
- An application of genetic and tabu searches to the freight railroad operating plan problem. 1998. Annals of Operations Research 78 51-69.
- Santa Fe Railway uses operating plan model to improve its service design. 1998. Interfaces 28(4) 1-12.
- Locomotive to shop routing at Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. 1997. D. L. Keefer, ed. Interfaces, Practice Abstracts 27(6) 112-114.
Logistics:
- An application of interdependent lot sizing and consolidation point choice. Gorman, M. F., D. G. Conway. 2006. Mathematical and Computer Modeling 44 65-72.
- Fleet ownership and intermodal supply-chain efficiency. 2005. Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy 72(1) 63-70.
- Logistics costs based estimation of freight transportation demand for capacity planning. Gorman, M. F., D. G. Conway. 2005. Journal of the Transportation Research Forum 44(1) 141-155.
- Estimation of an implied price elasticity of demand through current pricing practices. 2005. Applied Economics 37(9) 1027-1035.
- The effects of information costs on search and convergence in experimental markets. Brannon, J. I., Gorman, M. F. 2002. Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization 47(4) 375-390.
- Searching for Herbert Simon: Extending the Reach and Impact of Business Intelligence Research through Analytics. Gorman, M.F., D. Wynn and D. Salisbury, 2013. International Journal of Business Intelligence Research. 4(1) 1-12.
- Pricing and product mix optimization in freight transportation. 2002. Transportation Quarterly 56(1) 135-148.
Production and Operations:
- Toward a Better Understanding of the Bullwhip Effect. Gorman, M. F., J. J. Kanet. 2011. Production and Inventory Management Journal 47(1) 33-42
- Tales from the front: Lean case studies indicate that you can have too much of a good thing. Gorman, M. F., J. Hoff, R. Kinion. 2009.
- Interfaces 39(6) 540-548.
- Time phasing safety stocks for production planning. Kanet, J. J., M. Stoesslein, M. F. Gorman. 2009. International Journal of Production Research 48(2) 6859–6880.
- Johnson Electric uses simulation to rebalance cell operations and improve throughput. Gorman, M. F., R. Kinion. 2008. B. T. Denton, ed. Interfaces Practice Abstracts 38(5) 406-407.
- Operations research helps reshape operations strategy at Standard Register Company. Ahire, S. A., M. F. Gorman, D. Dwiggens, O. Mudrey. 2007. Interfaces 37(6) 553-565.
- A major appliance manufacturer rethinks its inventory policies for service vehicles. Gorman, M. F., S. Ahire. 2006. Interfaces 36(5) 407-419. 2005 Wagner Award Finalist.
- Seasonality and the production-smoothing model. Gorman, M. F., J. I. Brannon. 2000. International Journal of Production Economics 65(2) 173-178.
Pedagogical:
- Analytics, Pedagogy and the Pass the Pigs Game. 2012. INFORMS Transactions on Education, 13(1), 57-64.
- Student Reactions to the Field Consulting Capstone Course in Operations Management at the University of Dayton. 2011. Interfaces 41(6) 564-577.
- The University of Dayton operations management capstone course: Undergraduate student field consulting applies theory to practice. 2010. Interfaces 40(6) 432-443
- “Business skilling” of the IT professional: Making today’s IT leaders into tomorrow’s business leaders. 2010. Journal of Education for Business 86(1) 17-24.
- Effective integration of technology into business statistics. 2008. INFORMS Transactions on Education 9(1) 10-19.
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