A Study on the Configuration of Handling Equipments for Container Terminal

Abstract:

A configuration model of handling equipments was developed for container terminal based on integer programming, which aims at the problem of configuration of handling equipments such as quay crane, yard crane and internal truck of container terminal. The model’s objective function was subject to the minimization of the total comprehensive cost. Furthermore, spreadsheet is employed to resolve this model to determine the best configuration of handling equipments. Finally, experiments considered some terminal with various throughputs were used for verifying this model. Therein, it was found from the computational results that the proposed approach could efficiently solve the configuration of handling equipments.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 472-475)
• Pages: 3326-3330
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.472-475.3326
• Online since: February 2012
• Authors: Dao Fang Chang, Zhu Hua Jiang, Jun Liang He, Xiao Na Hu
• Keywords: Comprehensive Cost, Container Terminal, Handling Equipment, Integer Programming, Optimized Configuration

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