Study on Shuttle Scheduling Problem in Automated Container Terminal

Yifan Shen, Ning Zhao, Weijian Mi, Chao Mi, Xiaohua Zhang, Mengjue Xia
2014 Open Automation and Control Systems Journal  
Owing to the shuttle in Mixed Operation Mode of Shuttle-based automated container terminal handles loading, unloading, congregation and delivery operations .simultaneously, conventional scheduling method cannot be applied. Accordingly, this paper proposed a mathematical scheduling model. The objective is to minimize shuttle operation time and deal with loading and unloading with priority while avoiding unbearable waiting time for congregation and delivery tasks. Due to the complexity of this
more » ... el, a Genetic Algorithm (GA) is designed for effective solutions. Numerical experiment is conducted to examine the key factors of the problem and the performance of the proposed GA.
doi:10.2174/1874444301406011810 fatcat:u5ruu54lnnelvhoq3no4hfu4eq