Title :
Scheduling empty specialized railway containers: A model and its algorithm
Author :
Changhong, Li ; Jing, Lv
Author_Institution :
Transp. Manage. Coll., Dalian Maritime Univ., Dalian, China
Abstract :
This paper addresses the empty container scheduling problem in the specialized railway container transportation system, under the condition of short container resource. It develops an empty container scheduling model with the constraints of capacities, maintenance and time window. The model is solved with Genetic Algorithm to maximize the overall benefit of the system.
Keywords :
containers; genetic algorithms; maintenance engineering; scheduling; transportation; empty container scheduling problem; empty specialized railway containers; genetic algorithm; maintenance; specialized railway container transportation system; time window; Containers; Genetic algorithms; Logistics; Maintenance engineering; Rail transportation; Time factors; GA; empty container scheduling; railway; specialized container;
Conference_Titel :
Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Electronic Commerce (AIMSEC), 2011 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Deng Leng
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0535-9
DOI :
10.1109/AIMSEC.2011.6011233
