Optimizing Container Truck Dispatching of Container Terminal Through Cooperative Scheduling Strategy

Ching-Kuei Kao,Si Zheng

doi:10.11648/j.ijtet.20200603.11

Abstract

Container terminals are the hubs that connect seas and lands in international transportation. In the globalization context of trade, the pursuit of efficient terminal operation is the goal of container terminals, transportation companies, and local governments. As a connecting transportation tool for terminal loading and unloading operations, horizontal transport, and storage operations, the operation of container trucks is optimized on the basis of a coordinated scheduling strategy with terminal working machinery in order to be in line with the concept of high-efficiency operation. Thus, the shortest operating time of ships is taken as the goal, and then the variables of the docking position of the ship and the number of quay crane operations are considered, a model for the three major processes of ship docking is developed, including the docking of ships and the number of quayside operations by arranging storage, transportation, and quay cranes and container trucks in the backyard. Subsequently, an evolutionary algorithm in Excel solver is used for the calculation of the examples, and the effectiveness of stack scheduling in optimizing terminal operation is finally confirmed on the basis of the cooperative scheduling strategy. According to the analysis results, 23.43% of the operation time can be saved under the loading and unloading coordinated container operation.

Highlights

Given the rapid development of global trade integration and e-commerce network informationization, international trade has become more frequent, which has brought tremendous development opportunities to global container transportation
Note: Data is calculated based on the distance between the berth of the container terminal of Humen Port in Dongguan and the exported container yard area, and the speed of the empty and heavy load of the container truck
The container terminal truck scheduling problem based on a collaborative scheduling strategy is modeled and solved to optimize the terminal production efficiency

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Introduction

Given the rapid development of global trade integration and e-commerce network informationization, international trade has become more frequent, which has brought tremendous development opportunities to global container transportation. According to the statistics of China’s port network on national port throughput, the throughput of China ports has shown a steady growth trend in the past seven years. In 2013–2016, the cargo throughput of China ports was approximately 10 billion tons. By 2017, the cargo throughput of China ports reached 12.6 billion tons, with a year-on-year growth rate of 6.4%, and container transportation accounted for a large proportion of port transportation. Container throughput of China ports has shown a growth trend with the increase of port throughput. In 2017, the container throughput of China ports exceeded 18% in growth, symbolizing the recovery of the shipping market [1], placing the shipping logistics service in the list as the key construction in the deep cooperation project between Guangdong and Hong Kong [2]

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