Simulating less-than-truckload terminal operations

Benchmarking

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-101

  Deshpande, Pranav J ^a   Yalcin, Ali ^a   Zayas Castro, José ^a   Herrera, Luis E ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Docks; Freight containers; Performance measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847331607     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770710730955     Document Type: Article

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