Chapter 4Solutions to the Decisions: Review and Suggestions
In the previous chapter, we formulated the decisions in container terminals as Constraint Satisfaction Optimization Problems (CSOPs). To recapitulate, these decisions are:
Allocation of berths to arriving vessels and Quay Cranes (QC) to docked vessels.
Storage space assignment.
Rubber Tyred Gantry Crane deployment.
Scheduling and routing of vehicles.
Appointment times to eXternal Trucks.
This chapter aims to discuss solution methods to the decisions. There are three main challenges associated with providing practical software for the decision-making: (a) simulating a container terminal, (b) selecting a design architecture, and (c) choosing appropriate ...
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