This paper deals with automated guided vehicles (AGVs) which transport containers between the quai and the stack on automated container terminals. The focus is on the assigment of transportation jobs to AGVs within a terminal control system operating in real time. First, we describe a rather...

At rail-road transshipment yards, gantry cranes move containers from freighttrains to trucks and vice versa. They constitute important entities in today'sintermodal transportation systems. Real-world yards are often partitionedinto several disjunct crane areas, so that crane interferences during...

Trotz intensiver Fördermaßnahmen für die Bahn durch den Bund und die EU verlagert sichdas Transportaufkommen immer weiter in Richtung der Straße. Nachteile der Bahn bestehenetwa in einer geringeren Durchschnittsgeschwindigkeit und Zuverlässigkeit sowie einergeringen Flexibilität. Durch die...

Large costs arise at a seaport container terminal from the duration of the unloading of vessels and from the time a vessel is waiting to be unloaded. The optimal allocation of vessels to berth space (Berth Allocation Problem) becomes more and more important as its solution is also input to...