Operations research at container terminals: a literature update

R Stahlbock, S Voß - OR spectrum, 2008 - Springer
The current decade sees a considerable growth in worldwide container transportation and
with it an indispensable need for optimization. Also the interest in and availability of …

Transport operations in container terminals: Literature overview, trends, research directions and classification scheme

HJ Carlo, IFA Vis, KJ Roodbergen - European journal of operational …, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

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 …

An integrated scheduling method for AGV routing in automated container terminals

Y Yang, M Zhong, Y Dessouky, O Postolache - Computers & Industrial …, 2018 - Elsevier
The simultaneous scheduling of quay cranes (QCs), automated guided vehicles (AGVs), and
yard cranes (YCs) in automated container terminals (ACTs) has been a critical problem. This …

A branch-and-bound approach for AGV dispatching and routing problems in automated container terminals

Z Wang, Q Zeng - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The efficiency of automated container terminals primarily depends on the automated guided
vehicle (AGV) scheduling scheme. This paper investigates the AGV dispatching and routing …

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 …

Sea container terminals: New technologies and OR models

AH Gharehgozli, D Roy, R De Koster - Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2016 - Springer
Owing to a rapid growth in world trade and a large increase in the flow of containerized
goods, sea container terminals play a vital role in globe-spanning supply chains. Container …

Integrated scheduling of crane handling and truck transportation in a maritime container terminal

L Chen, A Langevin, Z Lu - European Journal of Operational Research, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper studies the interactions between crane handling and truck transportation in a
maritime container terminal by addressing them simultaneously. Yard trucks are shared …

Deep reinforcement learning assisted genetic programming ensemble hyper-heuristics for dynamic scheduling of container port trucks

X Chen, R Bai, R Qu, J Dong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient truck dispatching is crucial for optimizing container terminal operations within
dynamic and complex scenarios. Despite good progress being made recently with more …

Adaptive particle swarm optimization for integrated quay crane and yard truck scheduling problem

DC Hop, N Van Hop, TTM Anh - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This study takes into account the integrated quay crane and yard truck scheduling problem
in which the yard truck picks containers at quay crane and then transports required …