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The management of transshipment terminals : decision support for terminal operations in finished vehicle supply chains /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mattfeld, Dirk C. (Dirk Christian)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Science+Business Media, [2006]
Series:Operations research/computer science interfaces series ; ORCS 35.
Subjects:
Automobiles > Transportation.
Business logistics.
Decision making.
Marine terminals > Management.
Operations research.
Physical distribution of goods > Management.
Vehicles > Transportation.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Table of Contents:
  • Freight transshipment
  • Vehicle transshipment
  • Automobile production and distribution
  • Trends in automobile production
  • Challenges for outbound logistics
  • Intermodal vehicle transshipment
  • Vehicle transport market
  • Competiton factors for ports
  • Management of terminal operations
  • Transshipment processes
  • Management decisions
  • Modeling terminal operations
  • Vehicle transshipment planning
  • An integrated transshipment model
  • Problem separation
  • Allocation of storage space
  • Space allocation problems
  • Problem generation
  • Construction heuristic
  • An evolutionary algorithm approach
  • personnel development
  • The gang scheduling problem
  • Tabu search
  • Algorithm design
  • Computational investigation
  • IT-integration of planning
  • Support for terminal operations
  • Software support for planning
  • Interplay of execution and planning
  • Impact of automated planning.