Internal transport operations connect the seaside, yard side, and landside processes at
container terminals. This paper presents an in-depth overview of transport operations and …

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 …

With the continuous increase in labour costs and the demands of the supply chain,
improving the efficiency of automated container terminals has been a key factor in the …

In this research, we focus on a container dispatching and conflict-free yard crane routing
problem that arises at a storage yard in an automated, maritime container terminal. A …

Automatic guided vehicle (AGV) is a device for horizontal transportation between quay
cranes and yard cranes in an automated container terminal. In which dispatching and …

Due to the increasing number of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in the multi‐AGV system
and the limitation of working environment, path conflicts often occur in the working process …

To solve the problem of path optimisation and obstacle avoidance of automated guided
vehicles (AGV) in the horizontal transportation of container terminals, this study proposed …

With the rapid development of global trade, ports and terminals are playing an increasingly
important role, and automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) have been used as the main carriers …

According to data of Census and Statistics Department, freight transport and storage
services contributed to 90% of the employment of logistics sector in the period from 2010 to …

In this paper we propose a centralized control method for routing and scheduling a fleet of
autonomously guided vehicles that serves online transportation requests. Our method …