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 …

Optimizing container terminal operations: a systematic review of operations research applications

BA Weerasinghe, HN Perera, X Bai - Maritime Economics & Logistics, 2024‏ - Springer
Operations research techniques have helped optimize container terminal operations over
the past decades and have been a regular feature of maritime logistics and maritime supply …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Robust multi-equipment scheduling for U-shaped container terminals concerning double-cycling mode and uncertain operation time with cascade effects

L Cai, W Li, B Zhou, H Li, Z Yang - Transportation Research Part C …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The integrated scheduling of quay cranes, internal vehicles, and yard cranes in container
terminals aims to improve port operations and often requires scheduling robustness under …

Optimization for integrated scheduling of intelligent handling equipment with bidirectional flows and limited buffers at automated container terminals

Z Zhuang, Z Zhang, H Teng, W Qin, H Fang - Computers & Operations …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Although a large amount of intelligent handling equipment has been widely used in
automated container terminals, few studies have explored the coordination optimization …

Incorporation of energy-consumption optimization into multi-objective and robust port multi-equipment integrated scheduling

L Cai, W Li, H Li, B Zhou, L He, W Guo… - … Research Part C …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Port operational efficiency and energy consumption are pivotal, but sometimes contradictory
factors influencing its competitiveness. In light of this, the simultaneous optimization of these …

The optimization of warehouse location and resources distribution for emergency rescue under uncertainty

BC Wang, QY Qian, JJ Gao, ZY Tan, Y Zhou - Advanced Engineering …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
China is one of the countries that suffer the most natural disasters in the world. The situation
of emergency response and rescue is extremely tough. Establishing the emergency …

A new solution approach for the twin yard crane scheduling problem in automated container terminals

AO Oladugba, M Gheith, A Eltawil - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Twin-Automated Stacking Crane (Twin-ASC) system is a special configuration
of Yard Crane (YC) that is common in most of the Automated Container Terminals (ACTs) …

An exact algorithm for multiple-equipment integrated scheduling in an automated container terminal using a double-cycling strategy

Y Li, Z Sun, S Hong - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The integrated scheduling of quay cranes, automated guided vehicles, and yard cranes is
key to achieving efficient performance for an automated container terminal. This paper …