Congestion analysis of waterborne, containerized imports from asia to the united states

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 992-1004

  Leachman, Robert C ^a   Jula, Payman ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Congestion analysis; Containerized imports; Intermodal freight transport; Queuing; Transportation planning

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION; QUEUEING THEORY;

CONGESTION ANALYSIS; CONTAINER FLOW; CONTAINERIZED IMPORT; FLOW-TIME; INDUSTRY DATUM; INTERMODAL FREIGHT TRANSPORT; QUEUING; QUEUING MODELS; RAIL NETWORKS; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

CONTAINER TERMINAL; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; IMPORT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

ASIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960950285     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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