A Real Time Vehicle Scheduling Strategy in Container Terminals

Abstract

With the rapid development of global container business, there are higher requirements for the operation efficiency of container terminals. The vehicle dispatching system is an important link in the operation of container terminal. The yard environment of container terminal is very complex, and the traditional global optimization model based on time estimation is no longer suitable to deal with the vehicle dispatching problem in the scene of dock. This paper proposes a real-time vehicle scheduling strategy for container terminals. Firstly, a buffer vehicle pool is designed to balance the efficiency of each quay crane (QC). Secondly, the wider neighborhood simulated annealing algorithm (WNSA) is presented to find the optimal matching result of each round of calculation. The experimental results show that the proposed strategy in this paper is able to improve the operation efficiency of the QCs and reduce the vehicle cost in the container terminal.