Quay to Storage Area Container Transfer: Critical Review of Modeling Techniques and Practical Outcomes

A substantial number of publish works for maritime container terminals focuses on the Quay to Storage area subsystem investigating locational, scheduling and job assignment problems for various equipment configuration, work plan formations, operating conditions and optimization objectives. The current work attempts to review published works in a way that reveals problems investigated, simplifications and assumptions in model formation, solution approaches and fruitful outcomes. Issues related to ship loading and unloading operations, assignment strategies of transfer vehicles, job assignment techniques etc are analyzed; contradictory outcomes are resolved and comments about the representativeness and applicability of the proposed models in real world problems are outlined.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Ballis, Athanasios
  • Dimitriou, Loukas
  • Paravantis, John
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2010-1-10 to 2010-1-14
• Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: DVD
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17 p
• Monograph Title: TRB 89th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Container terminals; Containers; Containerships; Freight traffic; Loading and unloading; Quays
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01158435
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 10-3020
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jun 7 2010 9:58AM