Managing truck arrivals with time windows to alleviate gate congestion at container terminals

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 179-188

  Chen, Gang ^a   Govindan, Kannan ^b   Yang, Zhongzhen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arrival control; Container terminal; Fluid based queueing model; Gate congestion; Hybrid metaheuristics; Time window optimization

Indexed keywords

CONTAINER TERMINAL; GATE CONGESTION; HYBRID METAHEURISTICS; QUEUEING MODEL; TIME WINDOWS;

CONTAINERS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PORT TERMINALS; QUEUEING THEORY; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; VEHICLE ROUTING;

TRUCKS;

EID: 84869507014     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2012.03.033     Document Type: Article

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