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

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

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Article ID: iaor20014045
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 52
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 409
End Page Number: 417
Publication Date: Apr 2001
Journal: Journal of the Operational Research Society
Authors: , ,
Keywords: networks: flow
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.

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