In the management of container sea-rail intermodal transportation, dynamic pricing problem with uncertain conditions has significant impacts on the benefit and competitiveness of a multimodal transport operator. Based on the revenue management theory and the features of container sea-rail intermodal transport, this paper develops a two stages optimal model which integrates dynamic pricing and s...

In the last decade, integrated logistics has become an important challenge in the development of wireless communication, identification and sensing technology, due to the growing complexity of logistics processes and the increasing demand for adapting systems to new requirements. The advancement of wireless technology provides a wide range of options for the maritime container terminals. Electr...

Because of growing demand to preserve and share reproducible computational experiments in scientific community, there has been interest in using Docker Linux Containers as a preservation mechanism. However, this is insufficient to help researches to comprehend ”Dockerized” experiments and connect computational artifacts with concepts in peer-reviewed publications. We present here an ontology an...

The acceleration of the speed of the quay crane for containers has raised a higher demand to the dynamic simulation system which is the key part of the simulator in the coast container crane. So it is very necessary to do this research on it. This essay, aimed at the seat motion system of training simulator in the coast container crane, lays a study on the key points in the design of the propri...

With the emergence of data-processing frameworks like Hadoop and Spark, a new concept of a cluster resource manager was necessary to deliver per-application containerwrapped on-demand resources with high scalability on a large scale. The container-based ”Big Data” Operating System concept arose (e.g. YARN and Mesos) and brought along with it the long-standing inter-instance performance interfer...

This paper summarizes the most important advances of the used crane control technology in perspective of automatic operation of container cranes. Faster and more productive container cranes demands highly efficient yard system. Storage capacity is the limitation for most terminals today; automatic operation offers optimum stacking density and peak capacity equivalent for continuous manning of e...

Due to globalization and the growth of international trade, many container terminals are trying to improve performance in order to keep up with demand. One technology that has been proposed is the use of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) in the handling of containers within terminals. Recently, a new generation of AGVs has been developed which makes use of cassettes that can be detached from the...

Household-level container-based sanitation (CBS) services may help address the persistent challenge of providing effective, affordable sanitation services for which low-income urban households are willing to pay. Little is known, however, about user perceptions of and demand for household CBS services. This study presents the results of a pilot CBS service programme in Cap Haitien, Haiti. One h...

Maritime container terminals are facilities where cargo containers are transshipped between ships or between ships and land vehicles (tucks or trains). They can be automated; semi-automated or static ones depend on the type of the equipments that they contain. There are crucial resources at container terminals; the yard, cranes and the vehicles. The yard refers to the temporary storage area whe...