Strategies for dispatching AGVs at automated seaport container terminals

Container Terminals and Cargo Systems: Design, Operations Management, and Logistics Control Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 155-178

  Grunow, Martin ^a   Günther, Hans Otto ^b   Lehmann, Matthias ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

AGV dispatching; Container terminals; On line and off line control; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889968626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49550-5_8     Document Type: Chapter

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