A novel modeling approach for the fleet deployment problem within a short-term planning horizon

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-89

  Gelareh, Shahin ^a   Meng, Qiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Containership; Fleet deployment; Linearization; Liner shipping; Mixed integer programming

Indexed keywords

FLEET OPERATIONS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; SHIPS;

CONTAINER SHIPS; DEPLOYMENT PROBLEMS; FLEET DEPLOYMENT; LINEARISATION; LINER SHIPPING; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL; MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MODELING APPROACH; PLANNING HORIZONS; SHORT TERM PLANNING;

TRAVEL TIME;

CONTAINER SHIP; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LINEAR PROGRAMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING METHOD; SHIPPING; VESSEL;

EID: 74249105425     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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