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

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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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  1. Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    I F A Vis, R de Koster, K J Roodbergen & L W P Peeters

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Vis, I., de Koster, R., Roodbergen, K. et al. Determination of the number of automated guided vehicles required at a semi-automated container terminal. J Oper Res Soc 52, 409–417 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601094

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