A crane scheduling method for port container terminals

A crane scheduling method for port container terminals

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Article ID: iaor20052132
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 156
Issue: 3
Start Page Number: 752
End Page Number: 768
Publication Date: Aug 2004
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research
Authors: ,
Keywords: transportation: general, optimization, programming: branch and bound
Abstract:

This paper discusses the problem of scheduling quay cranes (QCs), the most important equipment in port terminals. A mixed-integer programming model, which considers various constraints related to the operation of QCs, was formulated. This study proposes a branch and bound (B & B) method to obtain the optimal solution of the QC scheduling problem and a heuristic search algorithm, called greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP), to overcome the computational difficulty of the B & B method. The performance of GRASP is compared with that of the B & B method.

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