Storage yard operations in container terminals: Literature overview, trends, and research directions

HJ Carlo, IFA Vis, KJ Roodbergen - European journal of operational …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Inbound and outbound containers are temporarily stored in the storage yard at container
terminals. A combination of container demand increase and storage yard capacity scarcity …

A comprehensive review of quay crane scheduling, yard operations and integrations thereof in container terminals

D Kizilay, DT Eliiyi - Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, 2021‏ - Springer
Over the past decades, container transportation has achieved considerable growth, and
maritime trade now constitutes 80% of the global trade. The vessel sizes increased in …

Yard crane and AGV scheduling in automated container terminal: A multi-robot task allocation framework

X Chen, S He, Y Zhang, LC Tong, P Shang… - … Research Part C …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The efficiency of automated container terminals primarily depends on the synchronization of
automated-guided vehicles (AGVs) and automated cranes. Accordingly, we study the …

Design of digital twin applications in automated storage yard scheduling

Y Gao, D Chang, CH Chen, Z Xu - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2022‏ - Elsevier
A digital twin-enabled automated storage yard scheduling framework for uncertain port
dispatching is proposed in this paper. Digital twin technology is employed to establish the …

Integrated internal truck, yard crane and quay crane scheduling in a container terminal considering energy consumption

J He, Y Huang, W Yan, S Wang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Container terminals mainly include three types of handling equipment, ie, quay cranes
(QCs), internal trucks (ITs) and yard cranes (YCs). Due to high cost of the handling …

Yard crane scheduling in a container terminal for the trade-off between efficiency and energy consumption

J He, Y Huang, W Yan - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Green transportation has recently been the focus of the transportation industry to sustain the
development of global economy. Container terminals are key nodes in the global …

Scheduling optimization of yard cranes with minimal energy consumption at container terminals

M Sha, T Zhang, Y Lan, X Zhou, T Qin, D Yu… - Computers & Industrial …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel integer programming model to solve optimal problem of yard
crane scheduling with minimal energy consumption at container terminals from the low …

Container yard template planning under uncertain maritime market

L Zhen - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
A yard template determines the assignment of spaces in a yard for arriving vessels.
Fluctuation of demand for freight transportation brings new challenges for making a robust …

A simulation optimization method for internal trucks sharing assignment among multiple container terminals

J He, W Zhang, Y Huang, W Yan - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Owing that the internal trucks (ITs) are frequently used as transportation equipments
between yards and quaysides, the transportation efficiency of ITs secures a crucial position …

Integrated optimization of truck appointment quotas and container relocations for multiple blocks considering transshipment containers handling

S Duan, HX Zheng, ZY Wang - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The container terminal is a crucial transshipment node in the sea and land cargo transport
supply chain, and the efficiency of container collection and distribution has always been a …