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Nowadays, researchers have studied several cross docking related topics such as distribution network planning (Donaldson, Johnson, Ratliff, & Zhang, 1999; Rami, Jean, & Hosang, 2010; P. Chen, Guo, Lim, & Rodrigues, 2006; Musa, Arnaout, & Jung, 2010; Charkhgard & Tabar, 2011), dock door assignment (Bermúdez & Cole, 2001; Oh, Hwang, Cha, & Lee, 2006; Yu, Sharma, & Murty, 2008; Andrew Lim, H. Ma, & Zhaowei Miao, 2006; A. Lim, H. Ma, & Z. Miao, 2006; Miao, Lim, & Ma, 2009), inbound/outbound truck sequencing/scheduling (T. W. Liao, Egbelu, & Chang, n.d.; Boysen, Fliedner, & Scholl, 2010; Boysen & Fliedner, 2011; F. Chen & Lee, 2009; Larbi, Alpan, & Penz, 2009; Maknoon & Baptiste, 2010; Song & Chen, 2007; Bauchau, Alpan, Larbi, & Penz, 2008), location (Ross & Jayaraman, 2008), and vehicle routing (Lee, Jung, & Lee, 2006; C.-J. Liao, Lin, & Shih, 2010; Wen, Larsen, Clausen, Cordeau, & Laporte, 2009). A blow-by-blow description of these research areas is provided below.