This book presents new insights and successful solutions to the 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.
Container Terminals and Cargo Systems: Design, Operations Management, and Logistics Control Issues | Kap Hwan Kim (Editor), Hans-Otto Günther (Editor) | Springer
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Container terminals and terminal operations
Chapter 2: Simulation of a multiterminal system for container handling
Chapter 3: Comparing transportation systems for inter-terminal transport at the Maasvlakte container terminals
Chapter 4: Berth management in container terminal: The template design problem
Chapter 5: Mathematical modelling of container transfers and storage locations at seaport terminals
Chapter 6: An optimization model for storage yard management in transshipment hubs
Chapter 7: Advanced methods for container stacking
Chapter 8: Strategies for dispatching AGVs at automated seaport container terminals
Chapter 9: Dispatching vehicles in a mega container terminal
Chapter 10: Inventory-based dispatching of automated guided vehicles on container terminals
Chapter 11: Deadlock handling for real-time control of AGVs at automated container terminals
Chapter 12: Deadlock prevention for automated guided vehicles in automated container terminals
Chapter 13: The allocation of storage space for transshipment in vehicle distribution
Chapter 14: The workload balancing problem at air cargo terminals
Chapter 15: Simultaneous fleet assignment and cargo routing using benders decomposition
Chapter 16: O&D revenue management in cargo airlines-a mathematical programming approach
Chapter 17: A heuristic to solve a sea cargo revenue management problem
Chapter 18: Collaborating freight forwarding enterprises