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Variable Neighbourhood Descent for Planning Crane Operations in a Train Terminal

In: Metaheuristics in the Service Industry

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  • Wouter Souffriau

    (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management)

  • Pieter Vansteenwegen

    (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management)

  • Greet Vanden Berghe

    (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management)

  • Dirk Van Oudheusden

    (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management)

Abstract

In recent years, a lot of work has been done for supporting the operational management of container handling operations in seaports. However, the train-to-train container transshipment problem, in which containers have to be interchanged between trains, has been largely ignored. Containers are handled by rail mounted cranes. The time needed for completing the transshipments using multiple cranes is to be minimised. The contribution of this paper is to put forward a metaheuristic approach to deal with this challenging problem that has not been tackled before. The problem is first decomposed into three subproblems: (1) the assignment of a destination to each train, (2) the determination of container positions on the train wagons and (3) the determination of the operations sequence for the different cranes that perform the actual transshipments. The first subproblem is solved in a heuristic manner while the second subproblem is solved to optimality. The third subproblem is tackled by a Variable NeighbourhoodDescentmetaheuristic procedure. This approach is validated on a set of generated test problems. Solutions are obtained in a reasonable amount of calculation time.

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  • Wouter Souffriau & Pieter Vansteenwegen & Greet Vanden Berghe & Dirk Van Oudheusden, 2009. "Variable Neighbourhood Descent for Planning Crane Operations in a Train Terminal," Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, in: Kenneth Sörensen & Marc Sevaux & Walter Habenicht & Martin Josef Geiger (ed.), Metaheuristics in the Service Industry, chapter 6, pages 83-98, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnechp:978-3-642-00939-6_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00939-6_6
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    Cited by:

    1. 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.
    2. Alena Otto & Xiyu Li & Erwin Pesch, 2017. "Two-Way Bounded Dynamic Programming Approach for Operations Planning in Transshipment Yards," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 51(1), pages 325-342, February.
    3. Stefan Fedtke & Nils Boysen, 2017. "Gantry crane and shuttle car scheduling in modern rail–rail transshipment yards," OR Spectrum: Quantitative Approaches in Management, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research e.V., vol. 39(2), pages 473-503, March.

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