Handbook of Terminal Planning

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Böse, Jürgen W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, 49
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Management.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.

Container Terminals (CT) operate as central nodes in worldwide hub-and-spoke networks and link ocean-going vessels with smaller feeder vessels as well as with inbound and outbound hinterland transportation systems using road, rail, or inland waterways. The volume of transcontinental container flows...