Empty container management and coordination in intermodal transport

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2016.07.053MaRDI QIDQ1752789zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xiaoying Liang, Lijun Ma, Houmin Yan, Yang-Yang Xie

Publication date 24 May 2018

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2016.07.053

zbMATH Keywords

contract coordinationdry portsempty container managementintermodal transporttransportation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Transportation, logistics and supply chain management (90B06) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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