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Container yard allocation under uncertainty

Container yard allocation under uncertainty
Container yard allocation under uncertainty
This paper investigates allocation of space in storage yard to export containers under uncertain shipment information. We define two types of stacks: one is called the dedicated stack and the other is called the shared stack. Since containers meant for the same destination are assigned to dedicated stacks in the same block, no re-handling is required for containers in dedicated stacks. However, containers in shared stacks have different destinations; re-handling is required. We develop a two-stage stochastic recourse programming model for determining an optimal storage strategy, called the dual-response storage strategy. The first-stage response, regarding the allocation of containers to dedicated stacks, is made before accurate shipment information becomes available. The second-stage response, regarding allocation of additional containers to shared stacks, is taken after realization of stochasticity. Then, the unused spaces in the yard area can be released for other purposes. Computational results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed dual-response storage strategy obtained from the stochastic model.
Container terminal, Stochastic programming, Yard space allocation
30-36
SciTePress
Wu, Yue
e279101b-b392-45c4-b894-187e2ded6a5c
Parlier, Greg
Liberatore, Federico
Demange, Marc
Wu, Yue
e279101b-b392-45c4-b894-187e2ded6a5c
Parlier, Greg
Liberatore, Federico
Demange, Marc

Wu, Yue (2019) Container yard allocation under uncertainty. Parlier, Greg, Liberatore, Federico and Demange, Marc (eds.) In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems. vol. 1, SciTePress. pp. 30-36 . (doi:10.5220/0007253700300036).

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Abstract

This paper investigates allocation of space in storage yard to export containers under uncertain shipment information. We define two types of stacks: one is called the dedicated stack and the other is called the shared stack. Since containers meant for the same destination are assigned to dedicated stacks in the same block, no re-handling is required for containers in dedicated stacks. However, containers in shared stacks have different destinations; re-handling is required. We develop a two-stage stochastic recourse programming model for determining an optimal storage strategy, called the dual-response storage strategy. The first-stage response, regarding the allocation of containers to dedicated stacks, is made before accurate shipment information becomes available. The second-stage response, regarding allocation of additional containers to shared stacks, is taken after realization of stochasticity. Then, the unused spaces in the yard area can be released for other purposes. Computational results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed dual-response storage strategy obtained from the stochastic model.

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Published date: 19 February 2019
Venue - Dates: 8th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, , Prague, Czech Republic, 2019-02-19 - 2019-02-21
Keywords: Container terminal, Stochastic programming, Yard space allocation

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Local EPrints ID: 430749
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/430749
PURE UUID: b21bd9a9-be0d-4d8c-8073-44cb7c3641b7
ORCID for Yue Wu: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-6003

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Date deposited: 10 May 2019 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:39

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Author: Yue Wu ORCID iD
Editor: Greg Parlier
Editor: Federico Liberatore
Editor: Marc Demange

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