Tactical berth and yard template design at container transshipment terminals: A column generation based approach |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, and State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore;1. Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore 138602, Singapore;2. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore;3. Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore 138602, Singapore;4. School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;5. Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT), ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland;1. College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China;2. Faculty of Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong;3. Department of Business Management, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen 518172, China;1. Institute of Logistics Science & Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, PR China;2. Engineering Research Center of Container Supply Chain Technology, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, PR China;3. College of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, PR China;1. Graduate School of Maritime Sciences, Kobe University, Fukae, Higashinada, Kobe 658-0022, Japan;2. Port and Airport Research Institute, Nagase, Yokosuka 239-0826, Japan;3. Department of Transportation Technology and Management, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd., Hsinchu City 300, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | Quay-side berthing congestion is an emerging challenging issue that arises in busy container transshipment terminals and calls for effective management of terminal operations. This paper tackles the berthing congestion problem by introducing a proactive management strategy from the terminal’s perspective that adjusts the calling schedule of feeder vessels in such a way that the quay-side workload distribution in the temporal dimension can be balanced. Such a schedule template design problem is considered simultaneously with another two tactical level decision problems, berth template design (i.e., determining preferred berthing positions for vessels) and yard template design (i.e., allocating storage yard space to transshipment flows). This highly integrated problem is formulated as a set covering model. Heuristic methods based on column generation are developed to obtain near-optimal solutions in an efficient way. Computational experiments on real-world sized test instances demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed approach. |
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| Keywords: | Berth template Yard template Storage allocation Container terminal Transshipment Port congestion |
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