Purpose: Numerous studies suggest that Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology can provide improved container handling efficiency; however, there is a relative lack of research concerning tracking and monitoring of vehicle movement in the container terminal environment. This study therefore aims at assessing the feasibility of applying RFID for vehicle tracking purposes in a container ...

How we categorize certain objects depends on the processes they afford: something is a vehicle because it affords transportation, a house because it offers shelter or a watercourse because water can flow in it. The hypothesis explored here is that image schemas (such as LINK, CONTAINER, SUPPORT, and PATH) capture the necessary abstractions to model affordances for spatio-temporal processes. To ...

Seaport container terminals are essential nodes in sea cargo transportation networks. As such, the operational efficiency of container terminals in handling containers passing through them plays a critical role in a globalized world economy. Many models and algorithms have been developed to address various decision problems in container terminals to help improve operational efficiency. These de...

We use the concept of Containers (fixed size macro data unit) in a photonic burst switch for the core transport network. This Container is tailored to integrate the existing multiple protocol stacks as an intermediate transport mechanism between optical and link layers. The objective of our container based optical burst switch is to eliminate the multiple O/E/O conversions in the core network a...