Yard planning for vessel services with a cyclical calling pattern

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1039-1054

  Ng, W C ^a   Mak, K L ^a   Li, M K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

container terminal; cyclical service; heuristic; yard planning; yard template

Indexed keywords

CONTAINER TERMINAL; CYCLICAL SERVICE; HEURISTIC; YARD PLANNING; YARD TEMPLATE;

CONTAINERS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PORT TERMINALS; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS;

DESIGN;

EID: 77958167762     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: 10290273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052151003650092     Document Type: Article

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