In this research, Ride quality of a three-axle truck is investigated to understand its vibration specifications and influence of it on special load. The truck is Benz 2624, and the load is rather sensitive to vibrations. The system is considered for an off-road duty. Hence, the vehicle is modeled as a nineteen-degree of freedom system and its equations of motion are derived by employing Lagrang...

Reasonable scheduling of a train’s loading and unloading equipment can reduce the energy consumption production operations; this has great value for green development terminals. The collaborative model Automated Rail Mounted Gantry (ARMG) Guided Vehicle (AGV) is used to minimize in scenario vertical railway entering port shared storage yard existing between under mixed operation mode “train–shi...

This paper considers the problem of sequencing the processing of incoming mail in a Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) to match a given outbound truck delivery schedule. Mail arrives at a P&DC from local Associate Offices (AO) or remote P&DCs following an incoming schedule. The mail from an origin has different proportions to different destinations. For each destination, there are trucks...

Cross docking is a warehouse management concept in which items delivered to a warehouse by inbound trucks are immediately sorted out, reorganized based on customer demands and loaded into outbound trucks for delivery to customers, without requiring excessive inventory at the warehouse. Compared to traditional warehousing, the storage as well as the length of the stay of a product in the warehou...

This section contains an overview of the different functional areas of a marine container terminal and a summary of the main types of container handling systems. The main advantages and disadvantages of each type of handling system are also summarized without focusing on technical details. 2.1 Functional Areas of Terminal Operations As every other terminal, a container terminal is a complex sys...

This paper studies a scheduling problem arising in a beef distribution system where pallets of various types of beef products in the warehouse are first depalletized and then individual cases are loaded via conveyors to the trucks which deliver beef products to various customers. Given each customer's demand for each type of beef, the problem is to find a depalletizing and truck loading schedul...

In this paper, we propose a practical method for solving the delivery scheduling problem and discuss its implementation. The method is based on the cooperative problem solving with multiple agents. In the truck delivery scheduling method, the covered region is partitioned into multiple sub-regions and each sub-region is assigned a sub-problem solving agent. For integrating those subproblem solv...

1 In this paper we present a branch-and-cut algorithm for a structured 0/1 integer programming problem referred to as the \truck dispatching scheduling (TDS) problem." The TDS problem is a vehicle routing and scheduling problem that arose from an oil company's desire to better utilize regional truck eets and drivers. Many studies on diierent variations of vehicle routing and scheduling have app...