Vehicle routing problems and container terminal operations - an update of research

Operations Research/ Computer Science Interfaces Series

Volumn 43, Issue , 2008, Pages 551-589

  Stahlbock, Robert ^a,b   Voß, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b FOM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated guided vehicles; Container terminal operations; Quay cranes; Rail mounted gantry cranes; Scheduling; Straddle carriers; Trailers; Trucks; Vehicle routing problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888605325     PISSN: 1387666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-77778-8_25     Document Type: Article

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