Designing Container Yard Management Systems
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
37
Pages
10
Published
1998
Size
1,169 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/CR980341
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
M. Paolucci, V. Recagno & S. Sacone
Abstract
Freight transportation plays an important role in modern logistics, as one of the co-operating processes involved in production chains. In this context, an interesting research field is intermodal transport, which is defined as the movement of goods in the same loading unit or vehicle, using successively several modes of transport without direct handling of the goods. In an integrated freight terminal of a transportation network changing of either the means or the mode of transport should be supported by suitable freight information systems and involve decisions. In this work, the authors focus on the management of containers in port termin
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