Deployment Optimization of Rail Gantry Cranes in Railway Container Center Stations

Abstract

Rail gantry cranes are the core resources of railway container center stations which affect the operating efficiency and costs of stations. In this paper, a rail gantry crane deployment model is proposed which considers the operation time as well as balanced utilization of equipment. Further, this multi-objective function is transformed to a single objective model with a weight coefficient method. Finally, this paper puts forword optimization ideas for the deployment of core resources in a railway container center station.