It is a fundamental decision making process in container terminals to allocate container transporting works among ALVs. Nowadays, container terminals tend to be larger in storage space and more efficient in handling. As a result, estimations of ALV travel times could be inaccurate, the scale of ALV work allocation could be quite large, and a fixed handling sequence could be hardly ensured befor...

Wireless communication has become very important in this world due to easy handling of equipments and installation of operating software’s. The capacity and gain of these equipments depend on the channel conditions therefore we have to take care of channel noise, delay, gain, signal propagation and processing equipments. At the receiving end, receiver is responsible in inverting the effect of c...

Abstract—Currently container terminals are busy to handle high volume of container shipping movement. Conventional operational procedures have difficulties in handling containers movement, thereby slowing clearances and even resulting in some administrative issues in terminal operation. This paper presents an development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in a container terminal...

Accessibility of main sea ports by road has become increasingly difficult due to rapid growth in container throughput. To deal with this challenge, new ways for handling containers and distribution of cargo flows are needed to define and implement. One possibility is going beyond container transportation and considering cargos inside the containers in the design and operation of transportation ...

Workers in ports work with and close proximity of heavy machinery. Quay cranes used for moving containers between ships the dockside yard are one most accident-prone equipment types. For picking up containers, these equipped spreaders, i.e. lifting devices which lowered down on top lock to them mechanically. We concerned here monitoring a quay crane spreader so as make sure that safe clearance ...

This paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA)-based optimisation approach to improve container handling operations at the Patrick AutoStrad container terminal located in Brisbane Australia. In this paper we focus on scheduling for container transfers and encode the problem using a two-part chromosome approach which is then solved using a modified genetic algorithm. In simulation experiments, the...