Planning Inland Container Shipping: a stochastic assignment problem
conference paper
In this paper a case study is presented concerning the collection and delivery of containers between a container terminal and inland ports by barges making a round trip along these ports. The goal is to maximise the number containers arriving on time, transported by barge. To account for uncertain release times of the containers a simulation algorithm is used when making online decisions whether to assign a container to a barge or not. Using a realistic problem instance it is shown that the proposed simulation algorithm is the better performing one among several other benchmark solution methods.
TNO Identifier
537587
Publisher
Springer
Source title
23rd International Conference on Analytical & Stochastic Modelling Techniques & Applications, ASTMA 2016, Cardiff, UK, 24-26 August 2016
Place of publication
New York, NY, USA
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