THE EVALUATION OF THE SIZE OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT PARK UNDER THE FLUCTUATION OF THE OPERATION RATE
When choosing the necessary number of handling equipment terminal s management has to provide a good basics for its decision. Nevertheless, how much equipment had been chosen the demand on it would be different to its supply. This can be explained by the stochastical and dynamical features of the demand. At the same time, the supply could be as lower then demand as higher then that. And the terminal would face different costs with different level of supply and demand. In this case, the decision must be based on some optimality criterion which can provide the minimum terminal cots connected with difference between supply and demand. The article suggests the sum of costs connected with surplus of equipment and the ones connected with its deficit as the cost function. The methodology suggested in the paper can be used for the development of decision support systems.