Title
Yard crane deployment in container terminals
Abstract
A three-level, hierarchical system for yard crane (YC) management in container terminals and the algorithms for the bottom two levels were proposed in previous studies. The bottom two levels are responsible for YC job sequencing and intra-row YC deployment. This paper presents YC deployment strategies for inter-row YC deployment. The objectives are to minimize vehicle waiting times and the number of overflow jobs. We show by realistic simulation experiments that (1) when the number of yard cranes is less than the number of yard blocks, deploying YCs in proportion to the number of jobs in each row (3L-Pro-Jobs) is the best; (2) when the number of yard cranes is equal to or more than the number of yard blocks, the apparent workload approach, 3L-AW, performs best.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/WSC.2014.7020023
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
cranes,goods distribution,minimisation,scheduling,sea ports,container terminal,intrarow YC deployment,job sequencing,vehicle waiting time minimisation,yard crane
Hierarchical control system,Software deployment,Computer science,Simulation,Workload,Yard
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0891-7736
978-1-4673-9741-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shell Ying Huang116119.52
Ya Li201.69
Meimei Lau300.34
Teck Chin Tay400.34