Integrated operations planning in highly electrified container terminals considering time-of-use tariffs

Sumin Chen, Qingcheng Zeng and Yantong Li

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2023, vol. 171, issue C

Abstract: With the electrification of port equipment, container terminals have become electricity-intensive consumers. The time-of-use (TOU) pricing policy has prompted container terminals to reoptimize their operations planning to decrease electricity costs. However, it is an essential challenge to optimally plan highly correlated operations of a container terminal in response to TOU tariffs. Traditional operations planning of a container terminal focuses on improving operational efficiency under flat electricity tariffs. The obtained solution under flat electricity tariffs may be far from optimal when the TOU pricing policy is involved. To this end, this paper addresses an integrated operations planning problem from container terminals under TOU tariffs. In particular, several vital resources, including quay cranes, yard cranes, and berths, are jointly scheduled to handle tasks from vessels and external trucks. The objective is to minimize the total costs. We formulate the integrated optimization problem as a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model. We then propose a logic-based Benders decomposition (LBBD) algorithm for the problem. The proposed LBBD method uses valid inequalities to speed up the solution procedure. To address practical-sized instances, we design a tailored genetic algorithm (GA) with several acceleration techniques. We demonstrate the performance of the LBBD method and tailored GA through numerical experiments. Results indicate that the proposed integrated approach yields a better solution than its decentralized counterpart, demonstrating that the total operational cost can be significantly reduced by applying the developed model. We also discuss managerial implications drawn from our results for the integrated operations planning under TOU tariffs, which help port operators make critical decisions.

Keywords: OR in maritime industry; Container terminal; Integrated operations planning; Time-of-use tariffs; Logic-based Benders decomposition; Tailored genetic algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1366554523000224
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:transe:v:171:y:2023:i:c:s1366554523000224

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/600244/bibliographic
http://www.elsevier. ... 600244/bibliographic

DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2023.103034

Access Statistics for this article

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review is currently edited by W. Talley

More articles in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().