Evaluating advanced quay cranes in container terminals

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 432-445

  Chao, Shih Liang ^a   Lin, Yu Jr ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Container terminal; Exploratory factor analysis; Fuzzy AHP; Quay crane

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; CONTAINER TERMINAL; CRANE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; NUMERICAL METHOD;

GRUIDAE;

EID: 79952042092     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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