TY - BOOK ID - 7688643 TI - Handbook of terminal planning PY - 2011 SN - 1441984070 9786613080134 1441984089 1283080133 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Cargo handling. KW - Container terminals -- Planning. KW - Shipment of goods. KW - Container terminals KW - Cargo handling KW - Shipment of goods KW - Business & Economics KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - Management KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Transportation Economics KW - Management Theory KW - Civil Engineering KW - Planning KW - Planning. KW - Industrial traffic management KW - Traffic management, Industrial KW - Cargo KW - Container ports KW - Marine container terminals KW - Business. KW - Production management. KW - Operations research. KW - Decision making. KW - Applied mathematics. KW - Engineering mathematics. KW - Regional economics. KW - Spatial economics. KW - Business and Management. KW - Operation Research/Decision Theory. KW - Operations Management. KW - Regional/Spatial Science. KW - Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering. KW - Business logistics KW - Physical distribution of goods KW - Delivery of goods KW - Packing for shipment KW - Loading and unloading KW - Materials handling KW - Marine terminals KW - Unitized cargo systems KW - Operations Research/Decision Theory. KW - Mathematical and Computational Engineering. KW - Engineering KW - Engineering analysis KW - Mathematical analysis KW - Economics KW - Regional planning KW - Regionalism KW - Space in economics KW - Manufacturing management KW - Industrial management KW - Operational analysis KW - Operational research KW - Industrial engineering KW - Management science KW - Research KW - System theory KW - Mathematics KW - Spatial economics KW - Regional economics KW - Deciding KW - Decision (Psychology) KW - Decision analysis KW - Decision processes KW - Making decisions KW - Management decisions KW - Choice (Psychology) KW - Problem solving KW - Decision making KW - Engineering—Data processing. KW - Operations Research and Decision Theory. KW - Regional and Spatial Economics. KW - Mathematical and Computational Engineering Applications. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7688643 AB - Container Terminals (CT) operate as central nodes in worldwide hub-and-spoke networks and link ocean-going vessels with smaller feeder vessels as well as with inbound and outbound hinterland transportation systems using road, rail, or inland waterways. The volume of transcontinental container flows has gained appreciably over the last five decades -- throughput figures of CT reached new records, frequently with double-digit annual growth rates. Stimulated by throughput requirements and stronger competition between terminals settled in the same region or serving a similar hinterland, respectively, cost efficiency and throughput capabilities become more and more important. Nowadays, both terminal capacity and costs have to be regarded as key indicators for CT competitiveness. In respect of this steady growth, this handbook focuses on planning activities being aimed at “order of magnitude improvements” in terminal performance and economic viability. On the one hand the book is intended to provide readership with technological and organizational CT basics for strategic planning. On the other hand this book offers methodical assistance for fundamental dimensioning of CT in terms of 'technique', 'organization' or 'man'. The former primarily considers comprehensive information about container handling technologies representing the state of the art for present terminal operations, while the latter refers to methodological support comprising in particular quantitative solutions and modeling techniques for strategic terminal decisions as well as straightforward design guidelines. The handbook includes an introductory contribution which gives an overview of strategic planning problems at CT and introduces the contributions of the volume with regard to their relationship in this field. Moreover, each paper contains a section or paragraph that describes the impact of findings investigated by the author(s) for problem-solving in long-term planning of CT (as an application domain). The handbook intends to provide solutions and insights that are valuable for both practitioners in industry who need effective planning approaches to overcome problems and weaknesses in terminal design/development and researchers who would like to inform themselves about the state of the art in methodology of strategic terminal planning or be inspired by new ideas. That is to say, the handbook is addressed to terminal planners in practice as well as to students of maritime courses of study and (application oriented) researchers in the maritime field. ER -