A Tabu search heuristic for the inland container transportation problem

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 953-962

  Sterzik, Sebastian ^a   Kopfer, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Empty container repositioning; Hinterland container transportation; Integrated routing; Multi depot; Pickup and delivery; Vehicle routing and scheduling

Indexed keywords

CONTAINER TRANSPORTATION; EMPTY CONTAINER REPOSITIONING; INTEGRATED ROUTING; MULTI-DEPOT; PICKUP AND DELIVERY; VEHICLE ROUTING AND SCHEDULING;

AUTOMOBILES; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; FLEET OPERATIONS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; TABU SEARCH; TRANSFER CASES (VEHICLES);

TRUCKS;

EID: 84872379416     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2012.11.015     Document Type: Article

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