Inventory-based dispatching of automated guided vehicles on container terminals

Container Terminals and Cargo Systems: Design, Operations Management, and Logistics Control Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 195-214

  Briskorn, Dirk ^a   Drexl, Andreas ^a   Hartmann, Sönke ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b HPC Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH   (Germany)

^c HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assignment problem; Automated guided vehicles; Container logistics; Container terminal; Dispatching; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958831754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49550-5_10     Document Type: Chapter

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