Designing a single-vehicle automated guided vehicle system with multiple load capacity

Transportation Science

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 351-363

  Thonemann, Ulrich W ^a   Brandeau, Margaret L ^b  

^a MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DESIGN; GUIDEWAYS;

VEHICLE SYSTEMS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 0030285202     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.30.4.351     Document Type: Article

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