Scheduling shipments in closed-loop sortation conveyors

DOI10.1007/s10951-016-0498-5zbMath1391.90247OpenAlexW2536980814MaRDI QIDQ1707667

Dirk Briskorn, Nils Boysen, Simon Emde

Publication date: 3 April 2018

Published in: Journal of Scheduling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-016-0498-5

zbMATH Keywords

schedulinglogisticstransshipmentsortation conveyor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transportation, logistics and supply chain management (90B06) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems (68M20)

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• Gantry crane and shuttle car scheduling in modern rail-rail transshipment yards
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