Truck Appointment Systems Considering Impact to Drayage Truck Tours

This paper proposes a novel approach for designing a Truck Appointment System (TAS) intended to serve both the marine container terminal operator and drayage operators. The aim of the proposed TAS is to minimize the impact to both terminal and drayage operations. In regard to terminal operations, the TAS seeks to distribute the truck arrivals evenly throughout the day to avoid gate and yard congestion. In regard to drayage operations, the TAS explicitly considers the drayage truck tours and seeks to provide appointment times such that trucks do not have to deviate greatly from their original schedule. The proposed TAS is formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear program (MINLP) and the model is solved using the Lingo commercial software. Experimental results indicate that the proposed TAS reduces the drayage operation cost by 14.7% compared to the typical design of TAS where t This paper proposes a novel approach for designing a Truck Appointment System (TAS) intended to serve both the marine container terminal operator and drayage operators. The aim of the proposed TAS is to minimize the impact to both terminal and drayage operations. In regard to terminal operations, the TAS seeks to distribute the truck arrivals evenly throughout the day to avoid gate and yard congestion. In regard to drayage operations, the TAS explicitly considers the drayage truck tours and seeks to provide appointment times such that trucks do not have to deviate greatly from their original schedule. The proposed TAS is formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear program (MINLP) and the model is solved using the Lingo commercial software. Experimental results indicate that the proposed TAS reduces the drayage operation cost by 14.7% compared to the typical design of TAS where the aim is to distribute the truck arrivals evenly throughout the day. In addition, experimental results show that increasing the appointment quota at the container terminal by one unit results in 140 minutes decrease in drayage operation cost for an experiment with 90 jobs.he aim is to distribute the truck arrivals evenly throughout the day. In addition, experimental results show that increasing the appointment quota at the container terminal by one unit results in 140 minutes decrease in drayage operation cost for an experiment with 90 jobs.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT045 Standing Committee on Intermodal Freight Transport.
• Authors:
  • Torkjazi, Mohammad
  • 0000-0002-2445-6024
  • Huynh, Nathan
  • Shiri, Samaneh
• 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: 8p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Container terminals; Drayage; Marine terminals; Mixed integer programming; Port operations; Reservations; Schedules; Trucks
• Uncontrolled Terms: Truck tours
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01661448
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 18-05829
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 28 2018 9:22AM