Dispatching Vehicles in a Mega Container Terminal

• Main Authors: BISH, Ebru K., CHEN, Frank Y., LEONG, Thin Yin, Nelson, Barry L., NG, Jonathan W. C., SIMCHI-LEVI, David
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Port terminal operations; Vehicle dispatching; Heuristics; Computer Sciences; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering; Transportation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1175; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2174/viewcontent/DispatchingVehiclesInAMegaContainerT_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We consider a container terminal discharging and uploading containers to and from ships. The discharged containers are stored at prespecified storage locations in the terminal yard. Containers are moved between the ship area and the yard using a fleet of vehicles, each of which can carry one contain...