Title :
Design and Simulation of a Conceptual Automated Yard using New Combination System
Author :
Ho, Hong-Fa ; Chen, Rong-Jyh
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Educ., Nat. Taiwan Normal Univ., Taipei
Abstract :
Booming the global container trade, scarcity of land at ports in many metropolitan areas has the same difficulties with expanding the terminal area to improve capacity. As a result, alternative solutions, high-density, automated container terminals (ACT) are currently considered to increase the performance of container terminal. In this paper, a concept of new combination system-ACT (NC-ACT) is proposed. The average percentage cost per container and land needed is analyzed, evaluated, and compared with four prior systems. Four prior systems include general ACT (AGV-ACT) using automated guided vehicles (AGVs), linear motor conveyance system (LMCS), overhead grid rail system (GR), and automated storage/retrieval system (AS/RS). NC-ACT is shown that the efficiency is higher, the capacity is higher, unchecked containers are accessed randomly, and it has lower average percentage cost/storage capacity/acre than four prior ACT systems
Keywords :
automatic guided vehicles; storage automation; automated container terminals; automated guided vehicles; automated storage-retrieval system; conceptual automated yard; grid rail system; linear motor conveyance system; Buffer storage; Containers; Costs; Cranes; Educational technology; Electronics industry; Industrial electronics; Marine vehicles; Rails; Storage automation; Automated Container Terminals (ACT); Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs); Forty-foot Equipment Units (FEU); Twenty-foot Equipment Units; cost analyze;
Conference_Titel :
SICE-ICASE, 2006. International Joint Conference
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
89-950038-4-7
Electronic_ISBN :
89-950038-5-5
DOI :
10.1109/SICE.2006.315793
