Determination of the number of automated guided vehicles required at a semi-automated container terminal

I F A Vis (), R de Koster (), K J Roodbergen and L W P Peeters
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I F A Vis: Erasmus University
R de Koster: Erasmus University
K J Roodbergen: Erasmus University
L W P Peeters: Erasmus University

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2001, vol. 52, issue 4, 409-417

Abstract: Abstract This paper describes the development of a minimum flow algorithm to determine the number of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) required at a semi-automated container terminal. At such a terminal the containers are transported by AGVs from the quay cranes to the automated stacking cranes and vice versa. A model and a strongly polynomial time algorithm are developed to solve the case in which containers are available for transport at known time instants.

Keywords: logistics; container terminal; AGVs; networks and graphs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601094

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