Genetic algorithms: foundations and applications
Annals of Operations Research
An optimal solution to a dock door assignment problem
Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computers and industrial engineering
Modern heuristic techniques for combinatorial problems
Modern heuristic techniques for combinatorial problems
WSC '95 Proceedings of the 27th conference on Winter simulation
Using a simulation model to evaluate the configuration of a sortation facility
Proceedings of the 29th conference on Winter simulation
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
The Effects of Trailer Scheduling on the Layout of Freight Terminals
Transportation Science
Reducing Labor Costs in an LTL Crossdocking Terminal
Operations Research
Operations Research Letters
Iterative improvement to solve the parcel hub scheduling problem
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A bounded dynamic programming approach to schedule operations in a cross docking platform
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Heuristic solutions for transshipment problems in a multiple door cross docking warehouse
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A beam search heuristics to solve the parcel hub scheduling problem
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Exact algorithms for inventory constrained scheduling on a single machine
Journal of Scheduling
Generic planning and control of automated material handling systems
Computers in Industry
Analysis of different approaches to cross-dock truck scheduling with truck arrival time uncertainty
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A tabu search approach to the truck scheduling problem with multiple docks and time windows
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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This research presents an interesting scheduling problem common to freight consolidation terminals. This previously unstudied problem involves scheduling a set of inbound trailers to a fixed number of unload docks. The objective is to schedule the trailers to the unload docks to minimize the time span of the transfer operation. This study focuses on freight consolidation terminals in the parcel delivery industry. A simulation-based scheduling algorithm that uses a genetic algorithm to drive the search for new solutions is proposed. In addition to the introduction and discussion of the parcel hub scheduling problem, the contribution of this research is an approach that serves as the initial effort to solve this practical problem.