Transport operations in container terminals: Literature overview, trends, research directions and classification scheme

HJ Carlo, IFA Vis, KJ Roodbergen - European journal of operational …, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Operations research at container terminals: a literature update

R Stahlbock, S Voß - OR spectrum, 2008 - Springer
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 …

Intermodal transportation

TG Crainic, KH Kim - Handbooks in operations research and management …, 2007 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Intermodal transportation may be defined as the transportation of a
person or a load from its origin to its destination by a sequence of at least two transportation …

A multiple-crane-constrained scheduling problem in a container terminal

EK Bish - European Journal of Operational Research, 2003 - Elsevier
We consider a container terminal loading and unloading containers to and from a set of
ships, and storing the containers in the terminal yard. Each ship is served by multiple quay …

Flexible ship loading problem with transfer vehicle assignment and scheduling

Ç Iris, J Christensen, D Pacino, S Ropke - Transportation Research Part B …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents the flexible containership loading problem for seaport container
terminals. The integrated management of loading operations, planning of the transport …

A three-stage decomposition method for the joint vehicle dispatching and storage allocation problem in automated container terminals

H Hu, X Chen, T Wang, Y Zhang - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the joint vehicle dispatching and storage allocation problem in
automated container terminals (ACTs). Two types of popular vehicles used in ACTs are …

Analysis of a new vehicle scheduling and location problem

EK Bish, TY Leong, CL Li, JWC Ng… - Naval research …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
We consider a container terminal discharging containers from a ship and locating them in
the terminal yard. Each container has a number of potential locations in the yard where it …

Integrated quay crane and yard truck scheduling for unloading inbound containers

N Kaveshgar, N Huynh - International Journal of Production Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
To lower vessel turn time, it is crucial that the operations of quay cranes, yard trucks, and
yard cranes are well coordinated. Most studies have sought to optimize each of these …

Modelling of dual-cycle strategy for container storage and vehicle scheduling problems at automated container terminals

J Luo, Y Wu - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study proposes a new approach to determine the dispatching rules of AGVs and
container storage locations, considering both unloading and loading processes …

[HTML][HTML] Scheduling of collaborative operations of yard cranes and yard trucks for export containers using hybrid approaches

HP Hsu, HH Tai, CN Wang, CC Chou - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2021 - Elsevier
Optimizing collaborative operations for yard cranes (YCs) and yard trucks (YTs) is vital to the
overall performance of a container terminal. This research investigates four different hybrid …