Container Terminals and Cargo Systems: Design, Operations Management, and Logistics Control Issues

✍ Scribed by Kap Hwan Kim, Hans-Otto Günther (auth.), Professor Kap Hwan Kim, Professor Dr. Hans-Otto Günther (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 374
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since their introduction in the 1960s containers represent the standard unit-load concept for international freight. Container terminals primarily serve as an interface between different modes of transportation, e.g. domestic rail or truck transportation and deep sea maritime transport. Significant gains in productivity can be achieved through advanced terminal layouts, more efficient IT-support and improved logistics control software systems, as well as automated transportation and handling equipment. The primary objective of this book is to reflect these challenges and to present new insights and successful solutions to operational problems of automated container terminals and cargo systems. It comprises reports on the state of the art, applications of quantitative methods, as well as case studies and simulation results. Its contributions are written by leading experts from academia and business and address practitioners and researchers in logistics, transportation, and management.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Container terminals and terminal operations....Pages 3-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Simulation of a multiterminal system for container handling....Pages 15-36
Comparing transportation systems for inter-terminal transport at the Maasvlakte container terminals....Pages 37-61
Berth management in container terminal: The template design problem....Pages 63-86
Mathematical modelling of container transfers and storage locations at seaport terminals....Pages 87-105
An optimization model for storage yard management in transshipment hubs....Pages 107-129
Advanced methods for container stacking....Pages 131-154
Strategies for dispatching AGVs at automated seaport container terminals....Pages 155-178
Dispatching vehicles in a mega container terminal....Pages 179-194
Inventory-based dispatching of automated guided vehicles on container terminals....Pages 195-214
Deadlock handling for real-time control of AGVs at automated container terminals....Pages 215-241
Deadlock prevention for automated guided vehicles in automated container terminals....Pages 243-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
The allocation of storage space for transshipment in vehicle distribution....Pages 267-289
The workload balancing problem at air cargo terminals....Pages 291-313
Simultaneous fleet assignment and cargo routing using benders decomposition....Pages 315-331
O&D revenue management in cargo airlines—a mathematical programming approach....Pages 333-349
A heuristic to solve a sea cargo revenue management problem....Pages 351-364
Collaborating freight forwarding enterprises....Pages 365-381

✦ Subjects

Production/Logistics; Industrial and Production Engineering; Operations Research/Decision Theory