Minimizing the completion time of the transfer operations in a central parcel consolidation terminal with unequal-batch-size inbound trailers

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 709-720

  McWilliams, Douglas L ^a   Stanfield, Paul M ^b   Geiger, Christopher D ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University   (United States)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Consolidation terminals; Distribution; Genetic algorithms; Parcel; Simulation based scheduling

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING;

CONSOLIDATION TERMINALS; PARCEL; PARCEL HUB SCHEDULING PROBLEM; SIMULATION-BASED SCHEDULING;

TRUCK TRAILERS;

EID: 41549133161     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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