Rubber tired gantry crane deployment for container yard operation

  • Authors:

  • Richard Linn;Ji-yin Liu;Yat-wah Wan;Chuqian Zhang;Katta G. Murty

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL;Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China;Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China;Matlen Silver Group, Somerset, NJ;Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Industrial Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Container terminal's competitiveness is generally measured by the vessel discharging and loading time. The shore crane operation has attracted a number of research works. However, yard operation management has been very much experience based and did not receive much attention until last decade. This paper presents an algorithm and a mathematical model for the optimal yard crane deployment. The potential of the model in optimizing yard crane deployment was tested with a set of real operation data extracted from a major container yard terminal.