Determining fixed crane areas in rail-rail transshipment yards

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1005-1016

  Boysen, Nils ^a   Fliedner Malte, M ^a   Kellner Michael, M ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Container handling; Crane scheduling; Railway systems; Transshipment yards

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; CRANES; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS;

COMPUTERIZED SCHEDULING; CONTAINER HANDLING; CRANE SCHEDULING; FREIGHT TRAINS; RAILWAY SYSTEM; REAL-WORLD; SPEED UP; TRANSSHIPMENT YARD;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

CARGO HANDLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; SHIP HANDLING; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

GRUIDAE;

EID: 77954313082     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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