Modeling and solution of the joint quay crane and truck scheduling problem

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 236, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 978-990

  Tang, Lixin ^a   Zhao, Jiao ^a   Liu, Jiyin ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Container terminal; Internal trucks; Joint scheduling problem; Particle swarm optimization; Quay cranes

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; CONTAINERS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); PORT TERMINALS; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; TRUCKS;

BI-DIRECTIONAL FLOWS; CONTAINER TERMINAL; GENERAL SITUATION; JOINT SCHEDULING; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; QUAY CRANES; UNIDIRECTIONAL FLOW;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84897915134     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.08.050     Document Type: Article

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