Generic Simulation for rail-road container Terminals

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2656-2660

  Benna, Thouraya ^a   Gronalt, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAINER TERMINALS; GENERIC SIMULATIONS; SIMULATION-BASED;

CONTAINERS; PORT TERMINALS; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS; RAILS; ROADS AND STREETS;

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 60749113109     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2008.4736381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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