Integrated scheduling of handling equipment at automated container terminals

Henry Lau () and Ying Zhao ()

Annals of Operations Research, 2008, vol. 159, issue 1, 373-394

Abstract: To improve the productivities of an automated container terminal, it is important to schedule different types of handling equipment in an integrated way. A mixed-integer programming model, which considers various constraints related to the integrated operations between different types of handling equipment, is formulated. A heuristic algorithm, called multi-layer genetic algorithm (MLGA) is developed with a view to overcome the computation difficulty for solving the mathematical model. A numerical experimentation is carried out in order to evaluate the performance of the algorithm. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2008

Keywords: Integrated scheduling; Automated container terminal; Genetic algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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