Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) form a large and important part of the logistic transport
systems in today's industry. They are used on a large scale, especially in Europe, for over a …

Internal transport operations connect the seaside, yard side, and landside processes at
container terminals. This paper presents an in-depth overview of transport operations and …

AGV conflict prevention path planning is a key factor to improve transportation cost and
operation efficiency of the container terminal. This paper studies the anti-conflict path …

The current decade sees a considerable growth in worldwide container transportation and
with it an indispensable need for optimization. Also the interest in and availability of …

Abstract Automated Container Terminals (ACTs) have attracted an increasing number of
researchers over the last decade, compared to conventional terminals, because of their …

Container terminals in seaports constitute interfaces between sea and land transport of
goods in global transport chains. These logistics facilities face an increasing demand of …

Control of logistics operations at container terminals is an extremely complex task,
especially if automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are employed. In AGV dispatching, the …

To respond to the rapid growth of shipping container throughput, terminals urgently need to
improve the efficiency of thier operations and reduce operational costs through automation …

With advancements of quay side equipments and technologies, the bottleneck of port
operations has moved from quay side to yard side. The yard management of a port has …

Based on a novel discrete-event zone-control model, in our previous papers [,], we
presented a time-efficient traffic control for automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems to …