The impact of truck arrival information on container terminal rehandling

Wenjuan Zhao and Anne V. Goodchild

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2010, vol. 46, issue 3, 327-343

Abstract: This paper uses simulation to evaluate the use of truck arrival information to reduce container rehandles during the import container retrieval process by improving terminal operations. A variety of scenarios with different levels of truck information and various container bay configurations are modeled to explore how the information quality and bay configuration affect the magnitude of benefit. The results demonstrate that a complete arrival sequence is not required to substantially reduce rehandles, significant benefit can be obtained under small amounts of information, the benefits grow with the bay size, and that updating information in real time significantly lowers information requirements.

Keywords: Container; terminal; Container; rehandle; Truck; arrival; sequence; Heuristic; algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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