Reformulated acyclic partitioning for rail-rail containers transshipment

Maria Albareda-Sambola, Alfredo Marín and Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía

European Journal of Operational Research, 2019, vol. 277, issue 1, 153-165

Abstract: Many rail terminals have loading areas that are properly equipped to move containers between trains. With the growing throughput of these terminals all the trains involved in a sequence of such movements may not fit in the loading area simultaneously, and storage areas are needed to place containers waiting for their destination train, although this storage increases the cost of the transshipment. This increases the complexity of the planning decisions concerning these activities, since now trains need to be packed in groups that fit in the loading area, in such a way that the number of containers moved to the storage area is minimized. Additionally, each train is only allowed to enter the loading area once.

Keywords: Combinatorial optimization; Rail-rail transshipment; Integer programming; Graph partitioning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.02.022

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