Published 2012
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AN INTEGRATED SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR SEASIDE TERMINAL OPERATIONS
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In this paper we focus our attention on the operational
decision problems related to the seaside area of
maritime container terminals. In particular, we face the
Quay Crane Assignment Problem (QCAP) and Quay
Crane Scheduling Problem (QCSP) with an integrated
simulation-optimization approach. A 0/1 MIP model is
developed in order to determine the optimal assignment,
on a shift basis, of QCs to bays of each ship served by
the terminal during a given planning horizon, referred as
Bay_QCAP. The optimization model solutions are used
as input parameters for a Discrete Event Simulation
(DES) model able to reproduce the system behaviour
taking into account its stochastic nature and complexity.
The framework can be used for evaluating the impact on
the seaside terminal performance of the optimized
solutions and the effects of different operative decisions
related to the scheduling of QCs.
The framework is going to be applied to a real case
study pertaining to the Southern European Container
Hub (SECH), sited in the Port of Genoa, Italy.
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- http://hdl.handle.net/11567/382787
- URN
- urn:oai:iris.unige.it:11567/382787