Title :
A simulation model for intra-terminal transport of Container Terminal operations system
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Manage., Shanghai Maritime Univ., Shanghai
Abstract :
The research is based on investigating and studying various real container terminals operations systems. Firstly, intra-terminal transport is defined in the container terminal operations system that is a discrete event dynamic system and its entities, events, activities and process are analyzed. Secondly, based on identifying the various congestions, the simulation model is proposed. The cycle-time consists of the four stochastic variables: the non-stop traveling time of the cycle, the waiting time at berth, the waiting time at yard, and the abnormal waiting time in a cycle due to congestion or operations management. Finally, container terminals of phase I of Shanghai Yangshan Port and Shanghai Waigaoqiao Container Terminal are chosen as a case to study how to determine the quay-yard cycle time and the operation-line productivities in the quay-yard cycle for a planning terminal that has not been established. This research indicates that this simulation model for intra-terminal transport can be applicable to any of the five typical container-terminal handling systems and the empirical equation obtained in case study can make sense for the simulation model for inter-terminal transport.
Keywords :
containerisation; discrete event systems; stochastic processes; Shanghai Waigaoqiao Container Terminal; Shanghai Yangshan Port; container terminal operations system; cycle-time; discrete event dynamic system; intraterminal transport; operation-line productivities; quay-yard cycle time; stochastic variables; congestion; container terminal; cycle time; intra-terminal transport; simulation modeling;
Conference_Titel :
Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2008. IEEE/SOLI 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2012-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2013-1
DOI :
10.1109/SOLI.2008.4683013