Scheduling automated triple cross-over stacking cranes in a container yard

OR Spectrum

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 617-632

  Dorndorf, Ulrich ^a   Schneider, Frank ^a  

^a INFORM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Container terminals; Crane routing; Rail mounted gantry; Yard crane scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953535013     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-010-0206-3     Document Type: Article

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