The impact of storage block assignment for import containers on AGV dispatching in highly automated seaport container terminals

Author

Gujjula, R. ; Günther, H. -O

Author_Institution

Dept. of Production Manage., Berlin Inst. of Technol., Berlin, Germany

fYear

2008

fDate

8-11 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1739

Lastpage

1743

Abstract

In automated seaport container terminals, like the CTA in Hamburg or the ECT in Rotterdam, automated guided vehicles (AGV) are used to transport containers from quayside to yard and vice versa. The assignment of AGVs to transportation jobs, the so-called AGV dispatching, is one of the key problems in quayside transportation logistics. The impact of storage block assignment on AGV dispatching has been neglected so far in the literature. In this paper this impact is analyzed by means of simulation. It can be shown with the help of three storage block assignment strategies that the impact depends on congestion at the storage blocks and AGV travel time.

Keywords

automatic guided vehicles; freight handling; logistics; storage automation; AGV dispatching; automated guided vehicles; automated seaport container terminals; import containers; quayside transportation logistics; storage block assignment; Containers; Cranes; Dispatching; Electrical capacitance tomography; Logistics; Optimization methods; Stacking; Storage automation; Transportation; Vehicles; Automated guided vehicles; Container logistics; Dispatching; Seaport container terminal; Simulation; Storage block assignment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2008. IEEM 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2629-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2630-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEM.2008.4738170

Filename

4738170