Moving freight inside cross docking terminals

Cross docking is a transshipment platform used as a consolidation point in logistic networks. Moving freight inside these terminals depends highly on manpower, which makes it costly. In this paper, we introduce a model for freight transportation inside these terminals and discuss the factors that could affect them.

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