A dispatching method for automated lifting vehicles in automated port container terminals

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1002-1020

  Nguyen, Vu Duc ^a   Kim, Kap Hwan ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Automated lifting vehicle; Container port terminal; Dispatching; Time window

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PORT TERMINALS; PORTALS; PORTS AND HARBORS; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS; VEHICLES; WINDOWS;

AUTOMATED CONTAINER TERMINALS; AUTOMATED LIFTING VEHICLE; AUTOMATED VEHICLES; BUFFER CAPACITIES; BUFFER CONSTRAINTS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CONTAINER PORT TERMINAL; CONTAINER TERMINALS; CYCLE OPERATIONS; DELIVERY TASKS; DISPATCHING; MARSHALLING YARDS; MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PICK UP AND DELIVERIES; TIME WINDOW; TIME WINDOW CONSTRAINTS;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 60549102454     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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