Adaptive ship routing through stochastic ocean currents: general formulations and empirical results

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 32A, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 547-561

  Lo, Hong K ^a   McCord, Mark R ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; CURRENT; METHODOLOGY; SHIPPING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SHIPS;

SHIP ROUTING;

WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0032164281     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-8564(98)00018-4     Document Type: Article

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