A review of container terminal simulation models

Maritime Policy and Management

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 523-540

  Angeloudis, Panagiotis ^a   Bell, Michael G H ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAINER TERMINAL; CONTROL SYSTEM; DESIGN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING METHOD; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 80052281429     PISSN: 03088839     EISSN: 14645254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2011.597448     Document Type: Review

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