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The Automatic Generation of Transhipment Plans for a Train--Train Terminal: Application to the Spanish--French Border

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  • José Ángel González
  • Eva Ponce
  • Carlos Mataix
  • Javier Carrasco

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The enormous potential of combined transport (rail-road) makes rail the main alternative to the transport of freight by road in the Europe. Unfortunately, the European railway network is strongly fragmented, having different bottleneck points. This paper presents research that centers on the transhipment tasks in the Port Bou terminal. This terminal is a bottleneck point because of the different track gauges of the Spanish and French railways. In order to optimize the use of gantry cranes and the means available for train--train transhipment, a linear programming model that allows for the automation of container transhipment plans is proposed. An Analytic Decision Support application is used to develop the model. As a result of this research it can be concluded that the problem can be solved through linear programming and the model proposed could be transferred both to other transhipment terminals and to cargo terminals in general.

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  • José Ángel González & Eva Ponce & Carlos Mataix & Javier Carrasco, 2008. "The Automatic Generation of Transhipment Plans for a Train--Train Terminal: Application to the Spanish--French Border," Transportation Planning and Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(5), pages 545-567, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:transp:v:31:y:2008:i:5:p:545-567
    DOI: 10.1080/03081060802364539
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    1. Nils Boysen & Florian Jaehn & Erwin Pesch, 2011. "Scheduling Freight Trains in Rail-Rail Transshipment Yards," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 45(2), pages 199-211, May.
    2. Boysen, Nils & Fliedner, Malte & Jaehn, Florian & Pesch, Erwin, 2012. "Shunting yard operations: Theoretical aspects and applications," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 220(1), pages 1-14.
    3. Nils Boysen & Malte Fliedner & Florian Jaehn & Erwin Pesch, 2013. "A Survey on Container Processing in Railway Yards," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 47(3), pages 312-329, August.
    4. Dirk Briskorn & Florian Jaehn & Andreas Wiehl, 2019. "A generator for test instances of scheduling problems concerning cranes in transshipment terminals," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 41(1), pages 45-69, March.
    5. Konrad Stephan & Nils Boysen, 2017. "Crane scheduling in railway yards: an analysis of computational complexity," Journal of Scheduling, Springer, vol. 20(5), pages 507-526, October.

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