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Determining fixed crane areas in rail-rail transshipment yards

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  • Boysen, Nils
  • Fliedner, Malte
  • Kellner, Michael

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To enable rapid container transshipment between freight trains in modern rail-rail transshipment yards efficient computerized scheduling procedures are indispensable. This paper proposes a dynamic programming approach, which determines yard areas for gantry cranes, so that the workload is evenly spread among cranes and, thus, train processing is accelerated. In a straightforward simulation of transshipment yard operations, the effect of optimal crane areas vs. equally sized areas is studied, the latter being a common real-world policy. The results indicate a remarkable speed-up of train processing if optimal crane areas are applied.

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  • Boysen, Nils & Fliedner, Malte & Kellner, Michael, 2010. "Determining fixed crane areas in rail-rail transshipment yards," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 46(6), pages 1005-1016, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transe:v:46:y:2010:i:6:p:1005-1016
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    1. Nils Boysen & Simon Emde & Malte Fliedner, 2012. "Determining crane areas for balancing workload among interfering and noninterfering cranes," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 59(8), pages 656-662, December.
    2. Schulz, Arne & Fliedner, Malte & Fiedrich, Benedikt & Pfeiffer, Christian, 2021. "Levelling crane workload in multi-yard rail-road container terminals," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 293(3), pages 941-954.
    3. Alena Otto & Xiyu Li & Erwin Pesch, 2017. "Two-Way Bounded Dynamic Programming Approach for Operations Planning in Transshipment Yards," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 51(1), pages 325-342, February.
    4. Nellen, Nicole & Lange, Ann-Kathrin & Jahn, Carlos, 2022. "Potentials of direct container transshipment at container terminals," Chapters from the Proceedings of the Hamburg International Conference of Logistics (HICL), in: Kersten, Wolfgang & Jahn, Carlos & Blecker, Thorsten & Ringle, Christian M. (ed.), Changing Tides: The New Role of Resilience and Sustainability in Logistics and Supply Chain Management – Innovative Approaches for the Shift to a New , volume 33, pages 679-705, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Institute of Business Logistics and General Management.
    5. Boysen, Nils & Briskorn, Dirk & Meisel, Frank, 2017. "A generalized classification scheme for crane scheduling with interference," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 258(1), pages 343-357.
    6. Ambrosino, Daniela & Siri, Silvia, 2015. "Comparison of solution approaches for the train load planning problem in seaport terminals," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 65-82.
    7. Gang Ren & Xiaohan Wang & Jiaxin Cai & Shujuan Guo, 2021. "Allocation and Scheduling of Handling Resources in the Railway Container Terminal Based on Crossing Crane Area," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-24, January.
    8. Boysen, Nils & Fliedner, Malte & Jaehn, Florian & Pesch, Erwin, 2012. "Shunting yard operations: Theoretical aspects and applications," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 220(1), pages 1-14.
    9. Basallo-Triana, Mario José & Bravo-Bastidas, Juan José & Vidal-Holguín, Carlos Julio, 2022. "A rail-road transshipment yard picture," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 159(C).
    10. Li Wang & Xiaoning Zhu, 2019. "Container Loading Optimization in Rail–Truck Intermodal Terminals Considering Energy Consumption," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-15, April.
    11. Konrad Stephan & Nils Boysen, 2017. "Crane scheduling in railway yards: an analysis of computational complexity," Journal of Scheduling, Springer, vol. 20(5), pages 507-526, October.
    12. Stefan Fedtke & Nils Boysen, 2017. "Gantry crane and shuttle car scheduling in modern rail–rail transshipment yards," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 39(2), pages 473-503, March.
    13. Nossack, Jenny & Pesch, Erwin, 2013. "A truck scheduling problem arising in intermodal container transportation," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 230(3), pages 666-680.
    14. Nils Boysen & Malte Fliedner & Florian Jaehn & Erwin Pesch, 2013. "A Survey on Container Processing in Railway Yards," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 47(3), pages 312-329, August.

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