Agent-based Planning and Simulation of Combined Rail/Road Transport

SIMULATION

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 293-303

  Gambardella, Luca Maria ^a   Rizzoli, Andrea E ^a   Funk, Petra ^b  

^a DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

intermodal terminal simulation; intermodal transport planning; Multiagent simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS; TRUCKS;

AGENT BASED PLANNING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036588078     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0037549702078005551     Document Type: Article

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