A yard storage strategy for minimizing traffic congestion in a marine container transshipment hub

OR Spectrum

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 697-720

  Han, Yongbin ^a   Lee, Loo Hay ^a   Chew, Ek Peng ^a   Tan, Kok Choon ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Consignment; High low workload balancing protocol; Mixed integer programming; Port operation; Yard template

Indexed keywords

EID: 47849132185     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-008-0127-6     Document Type: Article

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