Analysis of a New Vehicle Scheduling and Location Problem

We consider a container terminal discharging containers from a ship and locating them in the terminal yard. Each container has a number of potential locations in the yard where it can be stored. Containers are moved from the ship to the yard using a fleet of vehicles, each of which can carry one con...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: BISH, Ebru K., LEONG, Thin Yin, LI, Chun-Lun, NG, Jonathan W. C., SIMCHI-LEVI, David
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2001
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1004/viewcontent/Bish_et_al_2001_NewVehicleScheduling_Naval.pdf
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
Description
Summary:We consider a container terminal discharging containers from a ship and locating them in the terminal yard. Each container has a number of potential locations in the yard where it can be stored. Containers are moved from the ship to the yard using a fleet of vehicles, each of which can carry one container at a time. The problem is to assign each container to a yard location and dispatch vehicles to the containers so as to minimize the time it takes to download all the containers from the ship. We show that the problem is NP-hard and develop a heuristic algorithm based on formulating the problem as an assignment problem. The effectiveness of the heuristic is analyzed from both worst-case and computational points of view.