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Planning for the TraPac Automated Container Terminal
Ports 2013, 2013TraPac operates B135-147 at the Port of Los Angeles. As part of a recent terminal expansion, TraPac decided to convert operations on a major portion of the terminal from conventional operations to a highly-automated system of container handling. In order for this conversion to be effective, a great number of issues had to be resolved by TraPac and POLA
Louis J. Di Meglio, Mark Sisson
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A dispatching method for automated lifting vehicles in automated port container terminals
Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2009In automated container terminals, containers are transported from the marshalling yard to a ship and vice versa by automated vehicles. The automated vehicle type studied in this paper is an automated lifting vehicle (ALV) that is capable of lifting a container from the ground by itself. This study discusses how to dispatch ALVs by utilizing information
Vu Duc Nguyen, Kap Hwan Kim
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Scheduling cooperative twin automated stacking cranes in automated container terminals
Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2019Abstract In the considered Automated Container Terminal, twin (i.e., identical non-passing) automated stacking cranes are configured for each block. The twin Automated Stacking Cranes (ASCs) collaborate to serve storage and retrieval requests from opposite ends of a storage block.
XiaoLong Han, Qianqian Wang, JiWei Huang
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Comparison of operations of AGVs and ALVs in an automated container terminal
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2009In an automated container terminal, the automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and the automated lifting vehicles (ALVs) are the most popular candidates to be used for transporting containers between the quayside and the storage yard. In this paper, we compare the operational productivities of the two types of vehicles when used in combination with the quay ...
Hyo Young Bae +3 more
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Design and simulation of automated container terminal using AGVs
2001 European Control Conference (ECC), 2001Booming in the world trade, scarcity of land for yard expansion in many ports, and deployment of new massive megaships have magnified the need for finding better ways of performing container terminal operations. High-density Automated Container Terminals (ACTs), with high operation efficiency and requiring less land, can thus become potential ...
Chin-I Liu +2 more
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A Simulation Study on the Design of a Novel Automated Container Terminal
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2015In this paper, we design, analyze, and evaluate a novel automated container terminal (ACT), namely, the rail-shuttle-based ACT. To analyze the performance, one detailed simulation system is built based on parametric design ideas. Two different microscopic rail-shuttle-based ACT simulation models, in which either straddle carriers (SCs) or automated ...
Xiaoming Yang +5 more
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Modeling and Control of the AGV System in an Automated Container Terminal
Modelling, Identification, and Control, 2010We study a modeling and traf??c control problem of the automated guided vehicle (AGV) system in a container terminal. The workspace of the vehicles (straddle carriers) is modeled as a road network composed of of lanes, crosses and depots. The container transport task for each vehicle is abstracted as a ??nite sequence of zones to be traversed by a ...
Li, Q., Udding, J.T., Pogromski, A.Y.
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An architectural design of control software for automated container terminals
Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2004Abstract Automation of handling equipment is a current trend in port container terminal. Because a large number of equipment of different types are involved in the handling operation, the structure of control software is highly complicated. This paper introduces an architectural design of control software and a simulation-based test-bed for testing ...
Kap Hwan Kim +3 more
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Sequencing Two Cooperating Automated Stacking Cranes in a Container Terminal
Transportation Science, 2010The containerized trade market is growing rapidly with the uprising of the Far East. Container ports worldwide should be responsive by developing tools to handle these massive volumes of containers in order to retain their level of competitiveness.
Iris F. A. Vis, Héctor J. Carlo
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Scheduling of Different Automated Yard Crane Systems at Container Terminals
Transportation Science, 2017In this work, different variants of a branch-and-bound procedure for yard crane scheduling at seaport container terminals and their effect on the terminal’s performance are studied. In particular, this work investigates the level of detail needed to take the exact crane characteristics, e.g., movements and crane interference, into account in the ...
Ulf Speer, Kathrin Fischer
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