A Transient Queuing Model for Analyzing and Optimizing Gate Congestion of Railway Container Terminals

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="914706.fig.0013a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mpe/volume-2014/914706/figures/914706.fig.0013a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>The minimum total cost</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="914706.fig.0013b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/mpe/volume-2014/914706/figures/914706.fig.0013b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>The optimal number of service channels</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Optimization results for the analysis time period.</table>

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Figure 13: A Transient Queuing Model for Analyzing and Optimizing Gate Congestion of Railway Container Terminals 