Integrated Scheduling of Yard and Rail Container Handling Equipment and Internal Trucks in a Multimodal Port

• Published in: IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 1 - 22
• Main Authors: Liu, Wenqian, Zhu, Xiaoning, Wang, Li, Zhang, Qin, Tan, Kok Choon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.03.2024; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm; Algorithms; Constraint modelling; Container terminal; Containers; Cranes; Discrete event systems; Gantry cranes; Handling equipment; Imports; integrated scheduling; multimodal transport system; Multiple objective analysis; Optimization; Optimization models; Rail transportation; Road transportation; Scheduling; Seaports; Sensitivity analysis; simulation technique; Task analysis; Transport buildings, stations and terminals; Trucks

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 internal trucks-in a multimodal container terminal involving mixed operations of four types of container flows in a pa...