Models and algorithms for a yard crane scheduling problem in container ports

[EN] This paper addresses the scheduling of a yard crane in an automated container block, considering its rela-tionships with the other terminal subsystems. Containers coming into the block to be stored have release times, indicating the moment at which they arrive from ships or trucks. Containers b...

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Autores: Vallada Regalado, Eva|||0000-0003-3918-1788, Villa Juliá, Mª Fulgencia|||0000-0003-0019-8777, Belenguer, Jose Manuel, Alvarez-Valdes, Ramon
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/201659
Acesso em linha:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/201659
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Heuristics
Container terminal
Yard crane scheduling
Integer models
Local search
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Resumo:[EN] This paper addresses the scheduling of a yard crane in an automated container block, considering its rela-tionships with the other terminal subsystems. Containers coming into the block to be stored have release times, indicating the moment at which they arrive from ships or trucks. Containers being retrieved have due times, indicating when they will be required by other subsystems. The problem can be seen as a pickup routing problem and also as a one-machine scheduling problem. As a starting point, integer linear models were developed for both approaches. Then, to obtain good solutions for large instances, several heuristic algorithms, coupled with a local search, were proposed. An extensive computational study, based on a newly generated benchmark, shows the limits of the exact methods and the quality of the solutions obtained by the heuristics.