The explosive growth in the freight volumes has put a lot of pressure on seaport authorities to find better ways of doing daily operations in order to improve the performance and to cope with avalanches of containers processing at container terminals. Advanced technologies, and in particular automated guided vehicle systems (AGVS), have been recently proposed as possible candidates for improvin...

This study introduces the concept of microgames to support situated learning in order to foster situational awareness (SA) of planners in seaport container terminals. In today’s complex working environments, it is often difficult to develop the required level of understanding of a given situation, described as situational awareness. A container terminal represents an important, complex node in ...

Due to the ever-changing nature of container terminals, fluctuations in storage capacity, and updates vessel loading lists, yard can often become a hindrance efficient terminal operations. One specific bottleneck frequently encountered stacking is referred as clash. This phenomenon results longer times for containers caused by with same time different vessels within limited block availability e...

The existing research about multi-agent systems (MAS) in container terminal have not yet fully depicted the entire operations processes. These past works tend to use static (linear programming-based) modeling methods model systems. This method has a weakness because decision optimality is only guaranteed for agents that are directly involved discussion. While other whose performance affected by...

Recent trends in container terminal design favor automation above manual labor. Automatic container terminals outperform their manual counterparts in terms of twenty-foot equivalent units per year, and they are economically more effective as well. Due to the use of modern technologies, it is not always clear for actors which consequences every decision has on the design. Although technical desi...