Truck scheduling and storage allocation, as two separate subproblems in port operations, have been deeply studied in past decades. However, from the operational point of view, they are highly interdependent. Storage allocation for import containers has to balance the travel time and queuing time of each container in yard. This paper proposed an integer programming model handling these two problems as a whole. The objective of this model is to reduce congestion and waiting time of container trucks in the ter...
【英文摘要】
Truck scheduling and storage allocation, as two separate subproblems in port operations, have been deeply studied in past decades. However, from the operational point of view, they are highly interdependent. Storage allocation for import containers has to balance the travel time and queuing time of each container in yard. This paper proposed an integer programming model handling these two problems as a whole. The objective of this model is to reduce congestion and waiting time of container trucks in the ter...
【更新日期】
2008-11-04
【分类号】
U691.3
【正文快照】
Introduction Seaport container terminals play an important role in modern logistics as a hub of maritime transportation.The competitiveness of a terminal is primarily re-flected by its efficiency of transshipment because of that the charges paid by a ship