Empty container management and coordination in intermodal transport

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2016.07.053zbMath1394.90058OpenAlexW2478119064MaRDI QIDQ1752789

Xiaoying Liang, Houmin Yan, Lijun Ma, 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

transportationintermodal transportcontract coordinationdry portsempty container management

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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