Dynamic Quay Crane Allocation

• Main Author: ZHANG, Yan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: quay crane scheduling; container terminals; bucket brigades; self-organising systems; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/62; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1061&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We introduce simple rules for quay cranes to handle containers along a berth where vessels arrive continuously in time. We first analyze a model where workload is continuous. Our analysis shows that if the system is configured properly, it will always converge to a state with the maximum possible th...