Emergence and Impacts of Second-Tier Container Port Facilities

An increasing number of container and chassis staging, “dray-off”, drop yard, and depot facilities are being established outside of the marine container terminal. The increased use of these “second-tier” facilities implies that there must be some capacity, delivery time, service, or reliability benefit that offsets the additional cost and complexity. This paper builds on the authors’ previously developed integrated drayage scheduling model to determine the impact of second-tier port facilities on drayage operation. It modifies the previously developed model by incorporating these features: (1) trucks do not have to wait at customers’ locations during the packing and unpacking operations, (2) drayage operations includes a drop yard (i.e., second-tier facility) for picking up or/and dropping off loaded containers outside the marine container terminal, and (3) a customer is allowed to request any of the following jobs: pick up an empty container, pick up a loaded container, drop off an empty container and drop off a loaded container. The results indicated that by moving the location of import pickup and export delivery from inside the marine container terminal to a location outside the terminal, the efficiency of drayage operation would increase. Also, when import pickup and export delivery take place inside the marine container terminal, the most efficient location for the chassis yard and empty container depot is inside the terminal. However, when the location of import pickup and/or export delivery are outside the terminal, the most efficient location for the chassis yard and empty container depot is also outside the terminal.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT045 Standing Committee on Intermodal Freight Transport.
• Authors:
  • Shiri, Samaneh
  • Smith, Daniel
  • Huynh, Nathan
  • Harder, Frank
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2018-1-7 to 2018-1-11
• Date: 2018

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 11p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Container terminals; Drayage; Scheduling; Yard operations
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01661256
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 18-04837
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 26 2018 1:44PM