Contents	6
	Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION	11
	1.1 Freight Transshipment	11
	1.2 Vehicle Transshipment	14
	1.3 Book's Overview	16
	Chapter 2 AUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION	19
	2.1 Trends in Automobile Production	19
	2.2 Challenges for Outbound Logistics	25
	2.3 Summary	30
	Chapter 3 INTERMODAL VEHICLE TRANSSHIPMENT	31
	3.1 Vehicle Transport Market	32
	3.2 Competition Factors for Ports	38
	3.3 Summary	48
	Chapter 4 MANAGEMENT OF TERMINAL OPERATIONS	51
	4.1 Transshipment Processes	51
	4.2 Management Decisions	56
	4.3 Summary	69
	Chapter 5 MODELING TERMINAL OPERATIONS	71
	5.1 Vehicle Transshipment Planning	71
	5.2 An Integrated Transshipment Model	76
	5.3 Problem Separation	84
	5.4 Summary	92
	Chapter 6 ALLOCATION OF STORAGE SPACE	93
	6.1 Space Allocation Problems	93
	6.2 Problem Generation	100
	6.3 Construction Heuristic	103
	6.4 An Evolutionary Algorithm Approach	112
	6.5 Summary	117
	Chapter 7 PERSONNEL DEPLOYMENT	119
	7.1 The Gang Scheduling Problem	119
	7.2 Tabu Search	127
	7.3 Algorithmic Design	131
	7.4 Computational Investigation	143
	7.5 Summary	147
	Chapter 8 IT- INTEGRATION OF PLANNING	149
	8.1 Support for Terminal Operations	149
	8.2 Software Support for Planning	152
	8.3 Interplay of Execution and Planning	157
	8.4 Impact of Automated Planning	166
	8.5 Summary	167
	Bibliography	169
	Index	183