Planning the location of intermodal freight hubs: An agent based approach

2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 187-192

  Van Dam, Koen H ^a   Lukszo, Zofia ^a   Ferreira, Luis ^b   Sirikijpanichkul, Ackchai ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Decision making; Intermodal freight hub; Ontology; Socio technical system

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; DECISION MAKING; LOCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; ONTOLOGY;

AGENT BASED MODELS; INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDERS; INTERMODAL FREIGHT HUB; SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS;

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 34748831010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNSC.2007.372774     Document Type: Conference Paper

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