Paper Info
Title
A receding-horizon planning approach for rail operations in seaport container terminals
Abstract
The increasing importance of environmental and social issues in transportation imposes to focus more and more on strengthening and improving rail transportation. This is even truer for logistics nodes, such as seaports, which represent places where intermodality occurs. The present paper is devoted to model and plan the rail port cycle, at an aggregate level, with the goal of satisfying a given demand of trains outgoing from a generic container terminal. In order to do that, a discrete-time queue-based model resulting in a mixed-integer linear mathematical programming problem has been formulated; moreover, an event-triggered receding-horizon planning scheme has been defined in order to take into account possible disturbances affecting the system. The proposed approach has been applied to a real container terminal located in the Northern Italy coast; the results obtained show the effectiveness of the presented planning framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ITSC.2013.6728548
ITSC
Keywords
Field
DocType
environmental factors,integer programming,linear programming,logistics,planning,queueing theory,railways,sea ports,social sciences,northern italy coast,aggregate level rail port cycle planning,discrete-time queue-based model,environmental issues,event-triggered receding-horizon planning scheme,logistics nodes,mixed-integer linear mathematical programming problem,rail operations,rail transportation,seaport container terminals,social issues,mathematical models,transportation planning,mixed integer programming
Queue,Horizon,Operations research,Queueing theory,Integer programming,Linear programming,Engineering,Mathematical model,Train,Transportation planning
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-0009
1
0.36
References 
Authors
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Claudia Caballini1154.70
Cecilia Pasquale2105.03
Simona Sacone312932.17
Silvia Siri48821.27