Development of a model of decision support for optimization of physical flows in a container terminal

Author

Zeinebou, Zoubeir ; Benabdelhafid, Abdelatif

Author_Institution

Lab. de Mathmatiques Appliques du Havre, Univ. du Havre, Le Havre, France

fYear

2013

fDate

29-31 May 2013

Firstpage

421

Lastpage

426

Abstract

In this paper we propose a model of decision support to optimize the physical flow of the supply chain port. The physical flow, considered here, is a group of containers. To optimize these flows, we have developed a mathematical model proposing an allocation of incoming vessels on the waterfront in a way to minimize the total distance traveled by containers loaded / unloaded in the port area. This model was solved by using a genetic algorithm. Calculation results are presented and compared with those obtained by a commercial solver (CPLEX).

Keywords

decision support systems; genetic algorithms; loading; production engineering computing; sea ports; software packages; supply chains; unloading; CPLEX; commercial solver; container group; container loading; container terminal; container unloading; decision support model development; genetic algorithm; incoming vessel allocation; mathematical model; physical flow optimization; supply chain port; Containers; Genetic algorithms; Linear programming; Load modeling; Marine vehicles; Mathematical model; Resource management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sousse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0314-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICAdLT.2013.6568496

Filename

6568496