Laih, Chen-Hsiu; Sun, Pey-Yuan - In: Transport Policy 28 (2013) C, pp. 42-50
Compared with the liner container ships, the tramp bulk carriers often have to queue for vacant berths at a busy port. In order to solve this problem, this paper develops the optimal n-step toll schemes (n=1, 2, 3, …) to bulk carriers in a queue for multiple berths. Bulk carriers' queuing...