Study on vehicle management in logistics based on RFID, GPS and GIS

International Journal of Internet Manufacturing and Services

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 294-304

  Wang, Yizhong ^a   Ho, Oscar K W ^b   Huang, George Q ^b   Li, Da ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Geographical information system; GIS; Global positioning system; GPS; Logistics; Radio frequency identification; Real time vehicle routing problem; RFID

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; LOGISTICS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIO WAVES; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES;

DISTRIBUTION SERVICES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; REAL TIME VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEM; REAL-TIME INFORMATION; VEHICLE MANAGEMENT; VEHICLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; VISUAL BASIC .NET; TIME WINDOWS;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 74949143697     PISSN: 17516048     EISSN: 17516056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJIMS.2008.021200     Document Type: Article

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