A comparison of different AGV dispatching rules in an automated container terminal

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 880-885

  Liu, Chin I ^a   Ioannou, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONTAINERS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MANUFACTURE; PORT TERMINALS; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS; TRANSPORTATION;

AUTOMATED CONTAINER TERMINALS; AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLES; CONTAINER TERMINAL OPERATION; DISPATCHING RULES; OPERATION EFFICIENCIES; OPERATION PERFORMANCE; TERMINAL OPERATION; THROUGHPUT PERFORMANCE;

AUTOMATIC GUIDED VEHICLES;

EID: 77949869172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2002.1041336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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