Impact of Truck Arrival Information on System Efficiency at Container Terminals
This paper quantifies the benefits to drayage trucks and container terminals from a data-sharing strategy designed to improve operations at the drayage truck–container terminal interface. This paper proposes a simple rule for using truck information to reduce container rehandling work and suggests a method for evaluating yard crane productivity and truck transaction time. Various scenarios with different levels of information quality are considered to explore how information quality affects system efficiency (i.e., truck wait time and yard crane productivity). Different block configurations and truck arrival rates are also investigated to evaluate the effectiveness of truck information under various system configurations. The research demonstrates that a small amount of truck information can significantly improve crane productivity and reduce truck delay, especially for those terminals operating near capacity or using intensive container stacking, and that complete truck arrival sequence information is not necessary for system improvement.
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Authors:
- Zhao, Wenjuan
- Goodchild, Anne V
- Publication Date: 2010
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 17-24
- Monograph Title: Freight Systems: Intermodal Transportation, Hazardous Materials, and International Trade
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- Issue Number: 2162
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Container handling; Container terminals; Cranes; Data quality; Data sharing; Drayage; Economic efficiency; Freight traffic; Marine terminals; Productivity; Terminal operations; Trucking; Yard operations
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities; I73: Traffic Control;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01154618
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9780309142922
- Report/Paper Numbers: 10-2740
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Apr 14 2010 7:14AM