Truck Scheduling for Delivering Containers among Multiple Container Terminals Based on Truck Appointment System

Authors

Houming Fan, 1. School of Transportation Management, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China;;2. Institute of Strategy Management and System Planning, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China;
Zhenfeng Guo, 1. School of Transportation Management, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China;;
Yang Yu, 1. School of Transportation Management, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China;;2. Institute of Strategy Management and System Planning, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China;

Abstract

Abstract: Based on thetruck appointment system which is used for coping with the serious congestion in the port caused by trucks irregular arrival at peak time, the truck scheduling problem for delivering containers from outside yard to multiple container terminals is studied.Under the premise of meeting the requirements of container arrivals for export vessels, a truck scheduling model is built to reduce the outside yard's operation cost with the objective of minimizing the quantity of the dispatched trucks. A modified ant colony algorithm is designed to solve the model, and the truck scheduling plan for delivering containers to different terminals in different time periods can be determined. Numerical experimentsshow thattheproposedmodeland designed algorithmtake oneffectiveness. The study demonstrates that effectively decreasing the truck inputs and improving the benefits of yard are possible under the rational truck scheduling plan.

Recommended Citation

Fan, Houming; Guo, Zhenfeng; and Yu, Yang (2020) "Truck Scheduling for Delivering Containers among Multiple Container Terminals Based on Truck Appointment System," Journal of System Simulation: Vol. 29: Iss. 12, Article 16.
DOI: 10.16182/j.issn1004731x.joss.201712016
Available at: https://dc-china-simulation.researchcommons.org/journal/vol29/iss12/16

First Page

3051

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.16182/j.issn1004731x.joss.201712016

Last Page

3060

CLC

U492.2+2

Recommended Citation

Fan Houming, Guo Zhenfeng, Yang Yu. Truck Scheduling for Delivering Containers among Multiple Container Terminals Based on Truck Appointment System[J]. Journal of System Simulation, 2017, 29(12): 3051-3060.

DOI

10.16182/j.issn1004731x.joss.201712016