Abstract
The growth of marine containers transportation along with increasing complex container terminal logistic system (CTLS) has called for more effective approaches for scheduling container terminal resources. This paper discusses the problem of scheduling quay crane, yard crane and container truck for improving the container terminal productivity. One dynamic scheduling method and specific heuristic scheduling rules for dynamically assigning quay crane, yard crane and container trucks are proposed according to stowage plans and storage plans. A simulation model of a container terminal in Shanghai is built by the application of WITNESS2002, a simulation software package, to evaluate the efficiency of the dynamic scheduling method. From simulation results, the production efficiency increased about 8% by the dynamic scheduling method than static one previously discussed in CTLS.
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