Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1023843 | Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review | 2010 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
To enable rapid container transshipment between freight trains in modern rail–rail transshipment yards efficient computerized scheduling procedures are indispensable. This paper proposes a dynamic programming approach, which determines yard areas for gantry cranes, so that the workload is evenly spread among cranes and, thus, train processing is accelerated. In a straightforward simulation of transshipment yard operations, the effect of optimal crane areas vs. equally sized areas is studied, the latter being a common real-world policy. The results indicate a remarkable speed-up of train processing if optimal crane areas are applied.
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Authors
Nils Boysen, Malte Fliedner, Michael Kellner,