During the last years, there was rapid development in the world port industry which is considered to have resulted from the increase of universal trade. The key to the development of each port is its adaptability to the earliest developments and its resistance to the increasing competition. The influence zones of each port are characterised by instability, while each port authority aims at the ...

Recently, the number of intermodal barge/road and rail/road terminals in Western Europe has boomed, facilitating a growth of more sustainable hinterland freight transport. But currently, the question is raised if additional intermodal terminals are still desirable, if they can operate in an economically viable way and where they should be located in the existing transport network. The goal of t...

We propose exact solution approaches for a lateral transhipment problem which, given a pre-specified sequence of customers, seeks an optimal inventory redistribution plan considering travel costs and profits dependent on inventory levels. Trip-duration and vehicle-capacity constraints are also imposed. The same problem arises in some lot sizing applications, in the presence of setup costs and e...

Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) has arisen as new approach to effectively support domain experts to cope with the growing complexity of the problems which they have to face and solve. To date, few methodologies are available which can be exploited by domain experts with limited programming expertise to model and subsequently analyze complex systems typical of their application domain...

A critical problem in an intermodal transport chain is the direct meet at the transhipment nodes. This requires information technology and modern communication facilities as well as close collaboration between all the concerned transport operators in the chain. The TELETRUCK system – currently under development at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) – is a dispatch sup...

In order to fulfill Canada’s international disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping and peace enforcement roles, the Canadian Forces (CF) rely on a supply network to deploy and sustain its overseas missions. Warehousing, maintenance, transhipment and transportation activities are required to support missions. Currently, the CF supply network does not incorporate any permanent over...

Efficient transport solutions are based on multimodal systems, with the dominant role of rail and road in land versions systems connecting directing part intermodal terminals, transhipment terminals or warehouse centres. The implementation processes is always associated risk lack timeliness (quality) threats to people, equipment cargo (safety) resulting from human, technical, organizational glo...

RESUME : Le problème de tournées de véhicules avec gestion de stock (IRP) consiste à déterminer le circuit de distribution, d'un entrepôt central vers un ensemble de clients, qui optimise conjointement les coûts de transport et de stockage. Plusieurs travaux montrent l’intérêt de politiques comme le transbordement (transhipment) ou les tournées dynamiques sur les performances du système. Cepend...

We present the Rainbow Code, a state-of-the-art genetic algorithm (GA) representation that encodes layered trees or bipartite trees (spanning trees of a pre-specified complete layered graph or complete bipartite graph) as integer strings of a certain form. The Rainbow Code possesses perfect feasibility, full coverage and zero bias, because the correspondence it defines between trees and strings...