OPERATIONAL PLANNING OF INTERMODAL MARINE TERMINALS

Effective management of intermodal marine terminals presents challenges and requires planning decisions at a strategic, tactical and operational level. At the operational level, problems associated with decisions on equipment handling and management such as the crane scheduling problem and short-term facilities allocation planning such as the berth allocation planning problem. These problems are dynamic in nature since the decisions require ongoing attention on a day-to-day basis. In many cases, real time models are more applicable to address the pertinent issues. This paper presents real time information driven berth-planning system with a graphical user interface that facilitates the on-site use by people with limited computer skills and an efficient database management component, which allows for performance analysis and evaluation of terminal operations at a managerial level.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Forum

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• Authors:
  • Sideris, Alexios
  • Boile, Maria
  • Spasovic, Lazar N
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Forum
  • Location: Annapolis, Maryland
  • Date: 2000-11-29 to 2000-12-1
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 328-351

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freight handling; Intermodal transportation; Marine terminals; Marine transit; Operations; Planning; Strategic planning; Terminal operations
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00804782
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 10 2001 12:00AM