Empty container repositioning - A review

Cong Liu; Zhibin Jiang; Feng Chen; Xiao Liu; Liming Liu; Zhou Xu

doi:10.1109/WCICA.2010.5554069

Empty container repositioning - A review

Cong Liu, Zhibin Jiang, Feng Chen, Xiao Liu, Liming Liu, Zhou Xu

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

5 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Empty container repositioning, arousing coincidentally with the container shipping business, shows its significance nowadays in container control area, in which one of the key issues is the balance of container load and empty container transportation. In this paper, we first took a worldwide glance at current status of empty container repositioning. Then a general review on the past researches of this topic was presented together with corresponding taxonomy and models. At last, we briefly analyze the reasons of empty container repositioning problem and propose several candidate directions for further study.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2010 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA 2010
Pages	3028-3033
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WCICA.2010.5554069
Publication status	Published - 27 Oct 2010
Event	2010 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA 2010 - Jinan, China Duration: 7 Jul 2010 → 9 Jul 2010

Conference

Conference	2010 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA 2010
Country/Territory	China
City	Jinan
Period	7/07/10 → 9/07/10

Keywords

Empty container
Freight forwarder
Game theory
Shipper
Shipping company

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Software
Computer Science Applications

More information

10.1109/WCICA.2010.5554069

Cite this

@inproceedings{49eae06308f445fc99c62055d019b1b1,

title = "Empty container repositioning - A review",

abstract = "Empty container repositioning, arousing coincidentally with the container shipping business, shows its significance nowadays in container control area, in which one of the key issues is the balance of container load and empty container transportation. In this paper, we first took a worldwide glance at current status of empty container repositioning. Then a general review on the past researches of this topic was presented together with corresponding taxonomy and models. At last, we briefly analyze the reasons of empty container repositioning problem and propose several candidate directions for further study.",

keywords = "Empty container, Freight forwarder, Game theory, Shipper, Shipping company",

author = "Cong Liu and Zhibin Jiang and Feng Chen and Xiao Liu and Liming Liu and Zhou Xu",

year = "2010",

month = oct,

day = "27",

doi = "10.1109/WCICA.2010.5554069",

language = "English",

isbn = "9781424467129",

pages = "3028--3033",

booktitle = "2010 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA 2010",

note = "2010 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA 2010 ; Conference date: 07-07-2010 Through 09-07-2010",

}

TY - GEN

T1 - Empty container repositioning - A review

AU - Liu, Cong

AU - Jiang, Zhibin

AU - Chen, Feng

AU - Liu, Xiao

AU - Liu, Liming

AU - Xu, Zhou

PY - 2010/10/27

Y1 - 2010/10/27

N2 - Empty container repositioning, arousing coincidentally with the container shipping business, shows its significance nowadays in container control area, in which one of the key issues is the balance of container load and empty container transportation. In this paper, we first took a worldwide glance at current status of empty container repositioning. Then a general review on the past researches of this topic was presented together with corresponding taxonomy and models. At last, we briefly analyze the reasons of empty container repositioning problem and propose several candidate directions for further study.

AB - Empty container repositioning, arousing coincidentally with the container shipping business, shows its significance nowadays in container control area, in which one of the key issues is the balance of container load and empty container transportation. In this paper, we first took a worldwide glance at current status of empty container repositioning. Then a general review on the past researches of this topic was presented together with corresponding taxonomy and models. At last, we briefly analyze the reasons of empty container repositioning problem and propose several candidate directions for further study.

KW - Empty container

KW - Freight forwarder

KW - Game theory

KW - Shipper

KW - Shipping company

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77958118754&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/WCICA.2010.5554069

DO - 10.1109/WCICA.2010.5554069

M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book

SN - 9781424467129

SP - 3028

EP - 3033

BT - 2010 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA 2010

T2 - 2010 8th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA 2010

Y2 - 7 July 2010 through 9 July 2010

ER -

Empty container repositioning - A review

Abstract

Conference

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

More information

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this