The purpose of this research and development project is to construct the foundations of a logistics IT centre with a universal and intermodal character, i.e., covering all modes of transportation and corresponding central functions related to warehouses and container terminals. Through its modular structure it is applicable to arbitrary concrete site dependent needs. It also contains intelligen...

Crane scheduling in container terminals is known as a difficult optimization problem that has become even more challenging in recent years with the proliferation of multi-gantry automated stacking cranes. In this paper we present an efficient algorithm solving a subproblem arising in this context, namely deciding the priority of cranes after transportation tasks have been assigned. We tackle th...

Although the last-mile connecting services between the terminals and the origins (or destinations) represent a very small portion of the global distribution network in terms of distance, they contribute significantly to the total transportation cost. Not only they are more vulnerable than the long-haul transportation counterparts, but they also are the key sources of shipment delays, road conge...

China’s Railway Transportation (CRT) is enjoying a time of unprecedented development thanks to huge government investment and a series of aggressive favorable policies. Understanding the opportunities and challenges facing the CRT affords the practitioners and policy makers a better perception of development regarding this important transportation mode. This paper attempts to comprehensively as...

The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are the largest container port complex in North America and fifth largest in the world. Growth in U.S. Pacific Rim trade has put pressure on the landside transportation systems serving these two ports. In order to address this growth and mitigate environmental impacts, the ports are implementing new operational strategies and infrastructure improvements. ...

World trade has been increasing dramatically in the past two decades, and as a result containers exchange has grown significantly. Accordingly, container terminals are expanding to meet this increase and new container ports have opened. Ports with one or more container terminals are considered complex systems in which many resources, entities and transporters interact to achieve the objective o...

The role of ports goes far beyond the traditional function of a pure transport node linking sea and landside transportation. Rather, many ports offer value-added logistics and auxiliary services leading to a network of container flows. Moreover, containers may need to be transferred between different areas within the port. Information exchange and optimization is necessary to efficiently coordi...

In response to the phenomenon that some container terminals are excess capacity and some others are overloaded because of the imbalance of transportation development, this paper proposed a 3D simulation model of operation system for the container terminal apron. First, we study the characteristics of operation system for container terminal apron. Second, a 3D simulation model of terminal apron ...

additional transportation lift requirements, the United States Marine Corps developed a concept that enabled it to modify a commercial container ship to support deployed aviation units. However, a problem soon emerged in that there were too few people who were expert enough to do the unique type of planning required for this ship. Additionally, once someone did develop some expertise, it was ti...

In this demonstration a research prototype for autonomous local control of logistic processes in the transportation domain is presented. The aim of autonomy in logistics is to gain flexibility and robustness in process execution as well as increasing promptness and reducing human efforts in the coordination of a logistic process. This is enabled by state-of-the-art technologies from computer sc...