Rail Mounted Gantry Crane Scheduling Optimization in Railway Container Terminal Based on Hybrid Handling Mode
Joint Authors
Source
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-11-04
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Rail mounted gantry crane (RMGC) scheduling is important in reducing makespan of handling operation and improving container handling efficiency.
In this paper, we present an RMGC scheduling optimization model, whose objective is to determine an optimization handling sequence in order to minimize RMGC idle load time in handling tasks.
An ant colony optimization is proposed to obtain near optimal solutions.
Computational experiments on a specific railway container terminal are conducted to illustrate the proposed model and solution algorithm.
The results show that the proposed method is effective in reducing the idle load time of RMGC.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Wang, Li& Zhu, Xiaoning. 2014. Rail Mounted Gantry Crane Scheduling Optimization in Railway Container Terminal Based on Hybrid Handling Mode. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1016740
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Wang, Li& Zhu, Xiaoning. Rail Mounted Gantry Crane Scheduling Optimization in Railway Container Terminal Based on Hybrid Handling Mode. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1016740
American Medical Association (AMA)
Wang, Li& Zhu, Xiaoning. Rail Mounted Gantry Crane Scheduling Optimization in Railway Container Terminal Based on Hybrid Handling Mode. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1016740
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1016740