Modelling and solution approaches to the multi-load AGV dispatching problem in container terminals

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 371-386

  Klerides, Evelina ^a   Hadjiconstantinou, Eleni ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

combinatorial optimisation; container terminals; dispatching; mixed integer programming; multi load AGVs

Indexed keywords

EID: 80955123632     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/mel.2011.22     Document Type: Article

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