With the rapid growth of global container trade volume and trend large-scale ships. The collection distribution port efficiency capacity terminals in various countries are facing huge challenges. Due to randomness most trucks entering port, often face problem traffic congestion caused by centralized arrival load operation yard equipment. Therefore, terminal operators urgently need manage optimi...

For an LTL (Less-than Truckload) carrier, the allocation of doors at a consolidation facility to outbound trailers assigned to various destinations, and to inbound trailers in the continuous stream arriving from various origins, has a significant impact on its operations, and on the nightly man-hours needed for consolidation. In the past literature door allocations to destinations of outbound t...

In this paper, the initiation and propagation of structural damage in a building due to the truck collision to one of its corner columns were investigated. For this purpose, a three-dimensional 4-story moment resisting steel frame with intermediate ductility was considered. The structure was designed using ETABS software under standard dead, live, and earthquake loads, and then impact loading w...

Motivated by the field sta routing and scheduling problem of an Austrian infrastructure service provider, which involves the planning of subroutes, we study the truck and trailer routing problem (TTRP) [2]. In the TTRP, two types of customers are considered: customers that can be visited by a truck pulling a trailer (denoted as vehicle customers) and customers that can only be visited by a truc...

This paper describes how mind mapping software can help to visualize: • System performance requirements • Product attributes that satisfy performance requirements • Mapping between performance requirements and product attributes An example is given using a partial model for vehicle performance developed by the International Truck and Engine Corporation. The mind map software used in this study ...

The authors present an experimental project that aims to establish an effective navigation system in accordance with European Council Regulation 1/2005 concerning animal welfare during transport. The prototype created during the project consists of both hardware and software components. An onboard unit is installed at truck level. It collects and transmits real-time information of the animal tr...

1 The traffic flow heterogeneity caused by the different car-following dynamics among the different types 2 of vehicles has drawn increasing attention recently. This paper explores the characteristics of the four 3 types of car-truck car-following combinations, car-following-car (CC), car-following-truck (CT), truck4 following-car (TC) and truck-following-truck (TT), and their impacts on traffi...

The subsumption architecture is a layered mediator invented by Rodney Brooks for behaviour-based control of robots. The layers are minimally dependent and use minimal communication. We develop an object-oriented software design for the subsumption architecture, and demonstrate that each layer can be used as a slot for a set of plug-and-play components that implement diierent micro-strategies fo...