Mathematical programming and simulation based layout planning of container terminals

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 313-323

  Wiese, Jörg ^a   Suhl, Leena ^a   Kliewer, Natalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Container terminal; Layout optimisation; Simulation; Terminal design

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PORT TERMINALS; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS;

AUTOMATIC EQUIPMENTS; CONTAINER TERMINAL; CONTAINER TERMINAL OPERATORS; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR; OPTIMISATIONS; SIMULATION; TERMINAL DESIGN; TRANSPORTATION NETWORK;

CONTAINERS;

EID: 77950979990     PISSN: 17402123     EISSN: 17402131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSPM.2009.032594     Document Type: Article

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