Study on multiple types of handling equipment usage and effective operation in marine container terminals

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25350444
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social systems engineering/Safety system
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: NISHIMURA ETSUKO 神戸大学, 海事科学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (60311784)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 港湾 / モデル化 / アルゴリズム / コンテナターミナル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Containerships are getting larger and larger, involves the handling equipment requires advanced technology in marine container terminals. As one of some ideas, multiple types of handling equipment are often operated in a specific terminal. In this project, we propose the way to operate multiple types of handling equipment simultaneously at a specific terminal and also to find the situation effectively being operated.
To be concrete, we investigated terminals that multiple types of equipment have already operated in order to find features of those terminals and machinery characteristics. After that, we developed the mathematical model with parameters and constraints such as terminal configuration and container block layout. In order to find effectively feasible solutions of the model, we developed the algorithm by using metaheuristics. From computational results, it is clear that one type of equipment outperforms multiple types of equipment, in small size problem with optimal solution.

Free Research Field

港湾物流