40 Advances in Truck Scheduling at a Cross Dock Facility Mihalis M. Golias, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA Georgios K. D. Saharidis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece Stephanie Ivey, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA Hercules E. Haralambides, Center for Maritime Economics &...

In the operations research (OR) literature on port operations planning, there are a significant number of studies addressing decision problems in the context of container terminal management. Bulk terminals on the other hand, have been largely ignored. In this thesis, we study some of the key decision problems such as the berth allocation problem and the yard assignment problem in the bulk cont...

Two optimal algorithms, MTA* and MT-RBA*, are presented to find the optimal yard crane (YC) job sequence for serving a fleet of vehicles for delivery and pickup jobs with scheduled deadlines and predicted vehicle arrival times. The objective is to minimize the total tardiness of incoming vehicle jobs. This is important for minimizing vessel turnaround time. In the search for an optimal job sequ...

An approach to the problem of deciding which equipment and manpower must be allocated over a sequence of work shifts is presented. Once these resources are given, a feasible and near-optimal sequence of operations to load and unload a set of ships harboured in an Intermodal Container Terminal is found. The solution of the resource allocation problem is based on a network design formulation that...