A ship-truck intermodal transportation problem

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 247-259

  Infante, Davide ^a   Paletta, Giuseppe ^a   Vocaturo, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Freight transport; Heuristic algorithms; Logistics; Travelling purchaser problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 69149108533     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/mel.2009.6     Document Type: Article

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