A non-linear traffic flow-based queuing model to estimate container terminal throughput with AGVs

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 472-493

  Roy, Debjit ^a   Gupta, Akash ^b   De Koster, René B M ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Closed queuing network model; Container terminal operations; Internal transport; Traffic flow analysis; Vehicle congestion

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC GUIDED VEHICLES; CONTAINERS; PORT TERMINALS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS; THROUGHPUT; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VEHICLES;

CLOSED QUEUING NETWORK; CONTAINER TERMINAL; CONTAINER TERMINAL OPERATION; INTERNAL TRANSPORT; NUMBER OF VEHICLES; THROUGHPUT CAPACITIES; TRAFFIC FLOW ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC FLOW MODELING;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 84955699725     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2015.1056321     Document Type: Article

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