Gantry crane and shuttle car scheduling in modern rail–rail transshipment yards

This paper treats theoretical and practical aspects of train management in freight shunting yards. It is a literature survey extending the previous ones and presenting the new important papers published in the last decade. The operations realised in such yards are formalised by modelling them in unified modelling language diagrams and the algorithms implemented to solve the optimisation problems of operations management for the different types of freight shunting yards and for the existing models are presented. The details on real yards that can be found in the literature are also reported, to allow the reader understanding what case studies can be actually tackled with the existing methods.

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“…Ref. [57] tackle the last two problems, i.e. crane and shuttle car sequencing, as their schedules are intricately linked together.…”

Section: Other Yard Management Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Train management in freight shunting yards: Formalisation and literature review

Deleplanque¹,

Hosteins

Pellegrini

et al. 2022

IET Intelligent Trans Sys

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“…To verify the superiority and universality of the crossing crane area, we compared the results of four division strategies at different task numbers: the dynamic crossing crane area (DM1) that we propose, three-equivalent cross crane area (DM2) used for the initialization described in Section 3.1, disjunctive crane area equally (DM3) [7,8], and static disjunctive crane area (DM4) [30][31][32]36]. In Figure 14, the gaps are the objective differences between the DM1 and DM2, as well as between DM3, and DM4.…”

Section: Numerical Experiments With Different Division Rules Of Crane Areamentioning

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“…Studying the scheduling problem of multiple cranes, some papers design certain principles for dividing crane area to simplify the task assignment [7,8,[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. Boysen et al [30][31][32] firstly developed the disjunctive crane area to avoid interferences among GCs in the rail-rail transshipment yard, rail-road transshipment yard, and quayside.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Interrelation between handling resources scheduling and yard partition is complicated and challenging. Based on static disjunctive crane areas given in previous studies [30][31][32], Fedtke and Boysen [36,37] proposed optimization of the multiple GCs and shuttle car scheduling supported by the sorting system in rail-rail terminal. Wang et al [38,39] developed a bi-layer optimization model to determine dynamic disjunctive crane area and schedule handling equipment included ITs and GCs, and a hybrid algorithm was designed to solve the model.…”

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Allocation and Scheduling of Handling Resources in the Railway Container Terminal Based on Crossing Crane Area

et al. 2021

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The integrated allocation and scheduling of handling resources are crucial problems in the railway container terminal (RCT). We investigate the integrated optimization problem for handling resources of the crane area, dual-gantry crane (GC), and internal trucks (ITs). A creative handling scheme is proposed to reduce the long-distance, full-loaded movement of GCs by making use of the advantages of ITs. Based on this scheme, we propose a flexible crossing crane area to balance the workload of dual-GC. Decomposing the integrated problem into four sub-problems, a multi-objective mixed-integer programming model (MIP) is developed. By analyzing the characteristic of the integrated problem, a three-layer hybrid heuristic algorithm (TLHHA) incorporating heuristic rule (HR), elite co-evolution genetic algorithm (ECEGA), greedy rule (GR), and simulated annealing (SA) is designed for solving the problem. Numerical experiments were conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed model and algorithm. The results show that the proposed algorithm has excellent searching ability, and the simultaneous optimization scheme could ensure the requirements for efficiency, effectiveness, and energy-saving, as well as the balance rate of dual-GC.

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“…The authors of [18] summarize the problems that can occur in such a terminal. Another publication of this author (see [38]) considers integrated gantry crane and shuttle car scheduling problem. In [39], the author considered a gantry crane scheduling problem with overlapping crane areas.…”

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Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences

Jacyna¹,

Jachimowski²,

Szczepański³

et al. 2020

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The paper presents the issue of container handling processes at a railroad intermodal terminal. The main purpose of this paper is the assessment of the handling equipment utilization and the associated energy consumption. The authors analyze how the road vehicle availability at the moment specified in the containers loading schedule influences the total handling equipment operation time as well as the necessary number of handling equipment. It is assumed that vehicles planned for loading of import containers may be late for loading, which causes some interruptions in the loading schedule. Such interruptions are identified with the necessity to handle the next container for which the road vehicle is already waiting, which influences the handling equipment utilization and, finally, energy consumption. The general mathematical model of the problem developed in the FlexSim simulation software was presented. Based on the simulation research, it pointed out that proper road vehicles loading sequencing can significantly reduce handling equipment operation time, and thus energy consumption, costs, and CO 2 emissions. The literature analysis presented in the paper indicates that most of the research in the field of intermodal transport is focused on operations optimization in container ports. There are differences between two types of intermodal terminals in operation procedures and rules. That is why the authors decided to undertake the problem of road vehicle sequencing including their random availability and its influence on handling device operation time, which has not been considered in the literature so far.

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Gantry crane and shuttle car scheduling in modern rail–rail transshipment yards

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Train management in freight shunting yards: Formalisation and literature review

Train management in freight shunting yards: Formalisation and literature review

Allocation and Scheduling of Handling Resources in the Railway Container Terminal Based on Crossing Crane Area

Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences

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