Cross-docking truck scheduling with the arrival times for inbound trucks and the learning effect for unloading/loading processes

Production and Manufacturing Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 784-804

  Amini, Alireza ^a   Tavakkoli Moghaddam, Reza ^a   Omidvar, Aschkan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

cross docking; inbound truck; learning effect; mathematical model; truck scheduling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; DOCKING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCHEDULING; SIMULATED ANNEALING; UNLOADING;

CROSSDOCKING; ENUMERATION METHOD; LEARNING EFFECTS; MEAN COMPLETION TIME; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS; STORAGE SPACES; TRUCK SCHEDULING;

TRUCKS;

EID: 84977111411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21693277.2014.955217     Document Type: Article

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