Reservation storage policy for AS/RS at air cargo terminals

At air cargo terminals, the operations of an automatic storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) have certain special characteristics that both cargo arrival rates and storage duration are stochastic, and the probability distributions can only come from the empirical data. According to such particulariti...

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Published inProceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, 2005 p. 6 pp.
Main Authors Chulung Lee, Huei Chuen Huang, Goldsman, P., Bin Liu, Zhiyong Xu
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2005
Subjects
Analytical models
Electrical equipment industry
Freight handling
Production
Space exploration
Stochastic processes
Stochastic systems
Storage automation
Systems engineering and theory
Warehousing
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Summary:At air cargo terminals, the operations of an automatic storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) have certain special characteristics that both cargo arrival rates and storage duration are stochastic, and the probability distributions can only come from the empirical data. According to such particularities, this paper proposes a class-based reservation storage policy for AS/RS at air cargo terminals and an analytical model is developed. Two classes are investigated and a certain storage spaces are reserved for one priority class in such a way that the one-way travel time of S/R machine is minimized. The optimal reservation space is obtained by numerical searching. A simulation model is developed and the simulation results validate the optimal solution from the analytical model
ISBN:0780395190
9780780395190
ISSN:0891-7736
1558-4305
DOI:10.1109/WSC.2005.1574432