Staging queues in material handling and transportation systems
Proceedings of the 33nd conference on Winter simulation
Airport Gate Scheduling with Time Windows
Artificial Intelligence Review
Multiple crossdocks with inventory and time windows
Computers and Operations Research
The parcel hub scheduling problem: a simulation-based solution approach
Computers and Industrial Engineering
WSC '05 Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation
Positioning of goods in a cross-docking environment
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Meta-heuristic Algorithm for the Transshipment Problem with Fixed Transportation Schedules
IEA/AIE '08 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems: New Frontiers in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Genetic-based scheduling to solve the parcel hub scheduling problem
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Truck scheduling at zero-inventory cross docking terminals
Computers and Operations Research
The parcel hub scheduling problem: A simulation-based solution approach
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Multiple crossdocks with inventory and time windows
Computers and Operations Research
Scheduling cross docking operations under full, partial and no information on inbound arrivals
Computers and Operations Research
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
Layout and control policies for cross docking operations
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Truck dock assignment problem with operational time constraint within crossdocks
IEA/AIE'06 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence: industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems
Reducing transportation costs in distribution networks
IEA/AIE'06 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence: industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems
ICCSA'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part III
A new approach to simulation modeling of unit-load warehouses
Proceedings of the 2012 Symposium on Emerging Applications of M&S in Industry and Academia Symposium
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Robust door assignment in less-than-truckload terminals
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Flight assignment plan for an air cargo inbound terminal
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Analytical Modeling for the Strategic Design of Service Systems
International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications
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
Decentralized intelligence in freight transport-A critical review
Computers in Industry
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Handling freight in a crossdocking terminal is labor intensive and therefore costly because workers must unload, sort, and transfer a wide variety of freight from incoming to outgoing trailers. The efficiency of workers depends in large part on how trailers are assigned to doors around the dock; that is, on its layout. A good layout reduces travel distances without creating congestion, but until now no tools have been available to construct such layouts. We describe models of travel cost and three types of congestion typically experienced in crossdocking terminals, and we use them to construct layouts that minimize the labor cost of transferring freight. We report on the use of our models in the less-than-truckload trucking industry, including an implementation at a terminal in Stockton, California that improved productivity by more than 11%.