When transporting goods, truck drivers may have to perform load transfers between two vehicles at cross-dock or transfer locations. These create interdependencies the routes of different and require careful temporal synchronization. The situation becomes even more complicated when driver schedules must comply with customer time windows, working periods regulatory resting requirements. Although ...

Marc Schoenauer and Edmund Ronald Abstract|The precise docking of a truck at a loading dock has been proposed in [Nguyen & Widrow 90] as a benchmark problem for non-linear control by neural-nets. The main di culty is that back-propagation is not a priori suitable as a learning paradigm, because no set of training vectors is available: It is non-trivial to nd solution trajectories that dock the ...

The Layout of the Field Stacking containers is an important thing to consider because it can affect effectiveness loading and unloading process in field by arranging facilities stacking Yard including Rubber Gantry Crane (RTG) arrangement lane Head Truck. So, necessary research determining containers. design that will be made distance head truck travels transport from dock. In several studies, ...

__________________________________________________________ We consider the problem of coordinating the operations of two supply chain partners: a foreign shipping company and a domestic port. The two partners have conflicting business objectives, and the issue is to determine the optimal cycle time, by which the shipping company removes the empty containers from the domestic port, so that the j...

We study a scheduling problem that belongs to the yard operations component of the railroad planning problems, namely the hump sequencing problem. The scheduling problem is characterized as a single-machine problem with stepwise tardiness cost objectives. This is a new scheduling criterion which is also relevant in the context of traditional machine scheduling problems. We produce complexity re...

Berths and yards are the most critical parts of container terminals. Their efficiency directly influences terminal operation efficiency. The multi-period coordinated optimization on berth allocation yard assignment has been studied considering a interaction between yard. problem is formulated as an integer programming, aimed at minimizing total truck travel distance, where decision variables be...

The dramatic increasing of sea-freight container transportations and the developing trends for using containers in the multimodal handling systems through the sea, rail, road and land in nowadays market cause general managers of container terminals to face challenges such as increasing demand, competitive situation, new investments and expansion of new activities and need to use new methods to ...