Waiting profiles: An efficient protocol for enabling distributed planning of container barge rotations along terminals in the port of Rotterdam

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-148

  Douma, Albert ^a   Schutten, Marco ^a   Schuur, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Barge planning; Dynamic assignment; Multi agent based control; Quay scheduling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BARGES; CONTAINERS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

DISTRIBUTED APPROACHES; DISTRIBUTED PLANNING; DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT; EFFICIENT PROTOCOLS; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; MULTI AGENT; MULTI-AGENT BASED APPROACH; SIMULATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAINER TERMINAL; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PORT OPERATION; SHIPPING; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; ROTTERDAM; SOUTH HOLLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 61349123562     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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