Determining fixed Crane Areas in Rail-Rail Transshipment Yards

Nils Boysen (), Malte Fliedner () and Michael Kellner ()
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Nils Boysen: School of Economics and Business Administration, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Malte Fliedner: School of Economics and Business Administration, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Michael Kellner: School of Economics and Business Administration, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

No 07/2009, Jena Research Papers in Business and Economics - Working and Discussion Papers (Expired!) from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, School of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: To enable rapid container transshipment between freight trains in modern rail-rail transshipment yards efficient computerized scheduling procedures are indispensable. This paper proposes a dynamic programming approach, which determines yard areas for gantry cranes, so that the workload is evenly spread among cranes and, thus, train processing is accelerated. In a straightforward simulation of transshipment yard operations, the effect of optimal crane areas vs. equally sized areas is studied, the latter being a common real-world policy. The results indicate a remarkable speed-up of train processing if optimal crane areas are applied.

Keywords: Railway systems; Transshipment yards; Container handling; Crane scheduling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-07-09
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Published in: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 46/6 (2010), 1005-1016.

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