Managing customer arrivals with time windows: a case of truck arrivals at a congested container terminal

DOI10.1007/S10479-016-2150-3MaRDI QIDQ512938zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gang Chen, Li Ping Jiang

Publication date 3 March 2017

Published in Annals of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-016-2150-3

zbMATH Keywords

optimizationtime windowcontainer terminal operationsgate congestiontruck arrivals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Integer programming (90C10) Traffic problems in operations research (90B20)

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