Reducing truck emissions at container terminals in a low carbon economy: Proposal of a queueing-based bi-objective model for optimizing truck arrival pattern

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 3-22

  Chen, Gang ^a,b   Govindan, Kannan ^c   Golias, Mihalis M ^d  

^a DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Bi objective optimization; Container terminal; Fluid based approximation; Queueing network; Truck emissions

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CONTAINER TERMINAL; EMISSION CONTROL; EMISSION INVENTORY; EXHAUST EMISSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HEURISTICS; MODEL TEST; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING METHOD; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRUCKING;

EID: 84878242290     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2013.03.008     Document Type: Article

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