Collaborative vs. non-collaborative container-vessel scheduling

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 504-520

  Lei, Lei ^a   Fan, Chunxing ^b   Boile, Maria ^c   Theofanis, Sotiris ^c  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c the state University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative vessel scheduling; Mixed integer program; Slot sharing; Time window constraints; Waiting cost

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; SHIPS;

COLLABORATION POLICIES; COLLABORATIVE POLICY; COLLABORATIVE VESSEL SCHEDULING; CONTAINER VESSEL; MANAGEMENT POLICY; MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMS; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; SLOT-SHARING; TIME WINDOW CONSTRAINT; WAITING COST;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SHIPPING; VESSEL;

EID: 38649106496     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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