The Open Automation and Control Systems Journal

2014, 6 : 1810-1816
Published online 2014 December 31. DOI: 10.2174/1874444301406011810
Publisher ID: TOAUTOCJ-6-1810

Study on Shuttle Scheduling Problem in Automated Container Terminal

Yifan Shen , Ning Zhao , Weijian Mi , Chao Mi , Xiaohua Zhang and Mengjue Xia
Logistics Engineering College, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China.

ABSTRACT

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 model, 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.

Keywords:

Automated container terminal, mixed operation mode, shuttle scheduling, genetic algorithm.