Synchronization of yard truck scheduling and storage allocation in container terminals

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 659-672

  Lee, D H ^a   Cao, J X ^a   Shi, Q X ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Greedy heuristic; Storage allocation; Vehicle scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; CONTAINER TERMINAL; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; GREEDY HEURISTIC; GREEDY HEURISTICS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODELS; MAKESPAN; PORT OPERATIONS; STORAGE ALLOCATION; SUB-PROBLEMS; TRUCK SCHEDULING; VEHICLE SCHEDULING; WAITING-TIME;

AUTOMOBILES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONTAINERS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRUCKS;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70449585306     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: 10290273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052150902752041     Document Type: Article

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