The VeriSpreader radiation detection system will monitor every container passing through a shipping terminal without impeding the flow of commerce by making the radiation measurements during normal container handling. This is accomplished by integrating neutron and spectroscopic gamma ray detectors into a container crane spreader bar, the part of the crane that directly engages the intermodal s...

This study aims to address the problem of proper shipping container damage detection during hooking procedure performed by quay cranes and their mechanisms. We adopted Impacts Detection Methodology (IDM), developed previously, detect repeated impacts on same areas container. These concurrent indicate false procedures, which result in dangerous metal deformations these over short periods operati...

We describe parallel simulations of an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) system for the container handling at a port. The AGV system is modelled with a time-driven approach and executed on efficient simulation engines implemented by using Cilk, a multi-threaded parallel programming language developed at MIT. The speedup results of the AGV simulation over sequential versions are documented. We also...

A container terminal plays an important logistical role in handling transshipping containers. Therefore, location information regarding vehicles that carry containers in a port is critical to costand timeefficient management for harbor automation. In terms of scalability, cost, and energy efficiency, an active radio-frequency-identification (RFID) based real-time locating system (RTLS) is an ap...

Container terminal (CT) operations are often bottlenecked by slow YC (yard crane) movements. Efficient YC scheduling to reduce the PM waiting time is therefore critical in increasing a CT’s throughput. This paper develops an efficient continuous time MILP model for YC scheduling. The model treats realistic operational constraints such as multiple inter-crane interference, fixed YC separation di...