Optimizing the utilization of container truck transportation

The crowdedness of transportation of containers made multi-depot and multi-terminal necessary in the system design. To optimize the route of container truck, Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is proposed in this paper. In managing route of the truck, ACO works to decrease the number of container from 10 to 4 truck which imply to reduce the consumption of gasoline. There are several algorithm of ACO that are used to find the optimal routing of the container which are Ant system (AS), Elitist Ant System (EAS), Max-Min Ant System (MMAS), Rank-Based Ant System and Ant Colony System (ACS). The results of simulation show that Rank-Based Ant System has the best time over all methods for this transportation problem.