To effectively improve the competitiveness of port enterprises, container yard stacking optimization is an important way to raise their benefit. A multi-objective optimization model for containers stacking in the storage yard based on 0-1mixed integer programming is built to improve its efficiency. The objective function is to minimize the number of yard cranes used in the storage yard and balance the workload among different blocks during the planning period. The decision variables include the number of transit and export containers assigned to yard-bits, yard cranes distributed to blocks, yard-bits with high and low workload in a block. The constraints include meeting the shipping requirement, storage capacity and operational capacity of yard cranes. A numerical example is given and solved by Lingo9.0. The simulation is done to recover the relation between workload level and the number of yard crane used and the workload balance. The model can be used to yard stacking management and lift its level for a transshipment port.
Multi-Objective Optimization Model of Export and Transit Containers Storage in a Transshipment Port Yard
Applied Mechanics and Materials ; 220-223 ; 272-278
2012-11-12
7 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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