Smallest job completion time heuristics for yard crane dispatching in container terminals

• Main Author: Ching, Yu Xin.
• Other Authors: Huang Shell Ying
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer applications::Physical sciences and engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48447
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In land-constrained port container terminals, yard cranes are commonly used for handling containers in a container yard to load containers onto or unload containers from trucks. However, yard cranes are bulky, slow and need to move frequently between their work locations. As it is comm...