Scheduling vehicles in automated transportation systems: Algorithms and case study

OR Spectrum

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-58

  Van Der Heijden, Matthieu ^a   Ebben, Mark ^a   Gademann, Noud ^a   Van Harten, Aart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Freight transportation; Simulation; Vehicle scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011055432     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s291-002-8199-x     Document Type: Article

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