Scheduling commercial vehicle queues at a Canada-US border crossing

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 190-201

  Haughton, Michael ^a   Sapna Isotupa, K P ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Scheduling; Simulation; Time dependent queue arrivals; Trans border transportation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; QUEUEING THEORY; SUPPLY CHAINS; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION;

BORDER CROSSINGS; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; RESOURCE EFFICIENCIES; SCHEDULING; SIMULATION; SIMULATION STUDIES; TIME DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT QUEUE ARRIVAL; TRANS-BORDER TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE QUEUES;

TRUCKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SMOOTHING; TRADE FLOW; TRANSPORT VEHICLE; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054112687     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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