The Shanghai Yangshan Port, which is an island port with limited area, is only connected to the Shanghai's inland by Donghai Bridge whose condition cannot lay railways trucks. Meanwhile, empty-load backhaul and empty container balancing waste amount of transport resources. All these limit the port's future development and overall transport efficiency. This paper proposed a novel method that used the electric AGVs fleet to transport containers between island port and inland port (Luchao port), and reduced the empty-load transportation by using one AGV to carry an empty-load AGV. Hence, the inland port could be served as the second yard and the sea-rail intermodal hub of the Yangshan Port to promote the sea-rail combined transportation and expand the port's hinterland area. Then, exhaust emission, energy consumption and cost were analyzed. The results showed that using AGVs can reduce 50% of the total energy cost and 87% of the total CO2 emissions. Meanwhile, an AGV's total monthly costs were equivalent to a container truck when transporting 10 containers per day.
A Novel Method of Island Port'S Transport: Automatic Guided Vehicle Approach
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