Development and use of computer models for analysis of long range planning decisions at Southern Pacific Company

Abstract

Long range planning staff studies at Southern Pacific Company during the last three years have had as their primary objective the identification and analysis of major future decisions. These future decisions deal both with strategic, corporate problems and with operational investment problems; both types of problems are related and usually must be considered together. Some of these investment decisions will be made in the near future; the timing for others is as much as several years away.