Determination of the number of AGVs 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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