Article ID: | iaor1997194 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 30A |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 21 |
End Page Number: | 34 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1996 |
Journal: | Transportation Research. Part A, Policy and Practice |
Authors: | Evers Joseph J.M., Koppers Stijn A.J. |
Keywords: | containers |
Because a large number of vehicles use the same infrastructural facilities, the control of automated guided vehicle (AGV) traffic at a container terminal is crucial to the system performance. A new modelling technique which has been used to successfully model the relevant aspects of traffic control is presented in this paper. This control can be imposed by using a hierarchical system of so called semaphores, thus it is possible to follow a structural approach in the design of a traffic control configuration. The technique has been used to model an elementary terminal configuration and tested in a simulation model.