A job grouping approach for planning container transfers at automated seaport container terminals

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 413-426

  Yuan, S ^a   Skinner, B T ^a   Huang, S ^a   Liu, D K ^a   Dissanayake, G ^a   Lau, H ^b   Pagac, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Patrick Technology Systems   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automated seaport container terminals; Autonomous straddle carrier; Modelling; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION AND DECELERATION; AUTONOMOUS STRADDLE CARRIER; BRISBANE , AUSTRALIA; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; CONFINED AREAS; CONTAINER TERMINAL; GUIDING FUNCTION; JOB ALLOCATION; JOB GROUPING; LARGE VEHICLES; MAKESPAN; MODELLING; MULTIPLE LEVELS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; STRADDLE CARRIERS; VEHICULAR DYNAMICS; WAITING-TIME;

AUTOMATION; FLEET OPERATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PORT TERMINALS; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

CONTAINERS;

EID: 79960163929     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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