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

I F A Vis, R de Koster, K J Roodbergen, L W P Peeters
2001 Journal of the Operational Research Society  
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.
doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601094 fatcat:bwj54viwgfe5boyq5syrl4kyji