Yard crane scheduling problem in a container terminal considering risk caused by uncertainty

He, Junliang; Tan, Chin Tiong; Zhang, Yuting

doi:10.1016/j.aei.2018.11.004

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“…Considering the uncertainty of vessel arrivals and the fluctuation in the container handling rate of quay cranes, Iris et al (2019) developed a recoverable robust optimization approach for the weekly berth and quay crane planning problem and suggested a proactive baseline schedule with reactive recovery costs [14]. Considering uncertainty and traffic congestion, He et al (2019) not only optimized the efficiency of YC operations, but also optimized the extra loss caused by uncertainty for reducing risk of adjusting schedule as the result of the task groups' arriving times and handling volumes deviating from their plan [1]. Up to present, most of literatures about uncertain HCS in container ports have been modeled from an operations research viewpoint.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The ranges of T F , T U and T I are [3,30], [0. 1,7] and (0,1], respectively. In QSMC and ISMC, the exponential reaching law in (10) is employed and the saturation function is used to replace sign function to reduce chattering.…”

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“…Chinese ports play an important role in the maritime transport of containers, as stated in the results of the latest survey of Shanghai International Shipping Institute (updated to April 2020), in which there are seven Chinese ports ranked in the world top 10 container ports, in terms of number of handled containers. However, accompanied with the deterioration of the global economic and trade environment, container ports are facing more challenges, such as fiercer and fiercer competition, improving the service level, attracting freight source, saving operation cost, promoting operation efficiency (He etc., 2019) [1]. The resilient and efficient container handling chain system (HCS) has been presented as an opportunity to improve the operations and performances of container port simultaneously (Xu etc., 2019) [2].…”

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Exploring the Resilience of Uncertain Nonlinear Handling Chain Systems in Container Ports With a Novel Sliding Mode Control

Yang

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Uncertain handling chain system (HCS) of container ports brings steady-state error to the original control decisions, and even worse, dramatically degrades the system performance. The steady-state error will cause unsatisfied freight requirement to be much higher than the expected value for a long time, resulting in the decrease of system robustness and resilience. In this work, a novel sliding mode control with power integral reaching law (SMC-P) is presented for nonlinear HCS of container ports under uncertainty. Specifically, the integral of system state variable, the exponential reaching law and the power of the switching function are integrated to the traditional reaching law. And it is proven that the eliminated steady-state error, the accelerated approach speed, and the reduced chattering can be effectively obtained by SMC-P. A nonlinear HCS in container ports with uncertain freight requirement and handling ability is considered. SMC-P is compared with traditional method, genetic algorithm, quasi-sliding mode control and integral sliding mode control. Simulation results show that SMC-P does not only balance both steady-state error reduction and chattering avoidance caused by uncertainty, but also optimize the performance, robustness, and resilience of the uncertain nonlinear HCS. This study also brings economic and sustainability contributions for port authorities. INDEX TERMS Resilience, uncertain nonlinear handling chain system, sliding mode control, power integral reaching law

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Exploring the Resilience of Uncertain Nonlinear Handling Chain Systems in Container Ports With a Novel Sliding Mode Control

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“…Zheng et al [56] incorporate reshuffling jobs and yard cranes' interference into a twin yard cranes scheduling problem. He et al [57] address a yard crane scheduling problem with uncertainty and reduce the completion time.…”

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A Job Sequencing Problem of an Overhead Shuttle Crane in a Rail-Based Automated Container Terminal

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Kang

Hong

2020

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This study proposes a job scheduling model and its heuristics for an automated container terminal with an overhead shuttle crane (OS) to reduce the total tardiness time of flatcars and external trucks by considering the separation of each job into a main job, and a premarshaling or remarshaling job. The OS is busy or idle according to the fluctuations in the processing times of different pieces of equipment. We identify the OS job sequencing problem considering job separation (OSJSPS) as a mixed-integer programming (MIP) model, which simultaneously sequences a set of jobs and searches for their possible separation into premarshaling and remarshaling jobs. We present a two-stage genetic algorithm (TGA) based on two local improvement procedures: an iterative local search procedure and an opportunistic job separation procedure. We conclude that the two-stage genetic algorithm reduces the total tardiness time of the container terminal's flatcars and external trucks as the number of OS jobs increases.

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“…Heuristic methods are the most applied approaches, represented by 82 publications. A total of 30 papers have addressed the evolutionary algorithms, where most of them used theGA (Choe et al 2016;He et al 2019a).…”

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A comprehensive review of quay crane scheduling, yard operations and integrations thereof in container terminals

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Eliiyi

2020

Flex Serv Manuf J

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Over the past decades, container transportation has achieved considerable growth, and maritime trade now constitutes 80% of the global trade. The vessel sizes increased in parallel, up to 21,400 TEU (Twenty-foot-equivalent unit container). Accordingly, global containerized trade reached up to 150 million TEU in 2017 (UNCTAD 2018). This growth brings the need to use scientific methods to manage and operate container terminals more economically throughout the globe. In order to manage container transshipment and to use large vessels efficiently, the docking time at the container port for each vessel should be minimized. The decrease in the docking time enables the vessel to move to its next destination faster, decreasing turnover time and facilitating more containers to be transported. Container terminals can be divided into five main areas as the berth, the quay, the storage yard, the transport area, and the gate. The vessels must be berthed in suitable positions, after which many containers have to be unloaded or loaded via quay cranes, transshipped by vehicles inside the terminal, and stacked by yard cranes to suitable positions, all by using expensive equipment. With the invention of new technologies, the bottleneck at the berth side is almost overcome; however, the yard and the quayside operations have to be further perfected to obtain efficient plans. In this comprehensive literature review study, we aim to combine the literature on both yard and quayside operations, carefully examining independently studied problems as well as integrated ones. General information about port operations and relevant literature is provided. For the quayside, the literature on quay crane assignment and scheduling problems is investigated, whereas, for the yard side, yard crane scheduling, transport vehicle dispatching and scheduling, vehicle routing and traffic control, and storage location and space planning problems are reviewed in depth. In addition to these individual problems, their integrations are also analyzed, relevant publications and their respective contributions are explained in detail. Besides the milestone papers that lead the literature on container terminals, recent publications and advances are also reviewed, and managerial insights and future research directions are identified.

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Yard crane scheduling problem in a container terminal considering risk caused by uncertainty

Cited by 63 publications

References 34 publications

Exploring the Resilience of Uncertain Nonlinear Handling Chain Systems in Container Ports With a Novel Sliding Mode Control

Exploring the Resilience of Uncertain Nonlinear Handling Chain Systems in Container Ports With a Novel Sliding Mode Control

A Job Sequencing Problem of an Overhead Shuttle Crane in a Rail-Based Automated Container Terminal

A comprehensive review of quay crane scheduling, yard operations and integrations thereof in container terminals

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