Over the past decades, container transportation has achieved considerable growth, and
maritime trade now constitutes 80% of the global trade. The vessel sizes increased in …

Many modern manufacturing settings feature especially close relationship of the
transportation of workpieces between production steps with the scheduling of manufacturing …

This paper presents a multi-objective optimization model to integrate the scheduling of three
types of equipment—railway container operation gantry cranes, yard stacking cranes, and …

Reasonable scheduling of a train's loading and unloading equipment can reduce the energy
consumption of production operations; this has great value for the green development of …

A sea-rail automated container terminal (SRACT) plays a crucial role in the global logistics
network, combining the benefits of sea and railway transportation. However, addressing the …

The makespan of operations at container terminals is crucial for the lead time of cargo and
consequently the reduction of transportation costs. Therefore, an efficient transhipment and …

This study addresses the critical gap in the literature regarding the energy efficiency of
intermodal terminals in smart cities, mainly focusing on crane operations during train loading …

A container terminal plays a significant role in global supply chain. Coordinated scheduling
is one of the most important issues for sustainable development of container terminals. This …

The article presents the issues of a container train loading at the land intermodal terminal.
This issue was considered from the point of view of the distance covered by the loading …

We develop a methodology for measuring the expected operational performance of the
transshipment yard of a rail-road terminal. This includes the derivation of closed-form …