Truck Arrival Shift: An Advisory-Based Time Slot Management System to Mitigate Waiting Time at Container Terminal gates
conference paper
This paper introduces an advisory-based time slot management system to control truck arrivals at seaport
terminals with the aim to reduce congestion at terminal gates. We propose, develop and apply a modeling
framework to assess the impact of a truck arrival shift for a use case in the Port of Rotterdam. This system
is designed to apply control policies on truck inflow while taking the behavioral aspect of Truck Operating
Companies into account. We use discrete choice modeling to infer the time-of-day preferences of Truck
Operating Companies for container pick-ups from the exchange of information between port and hinterland
stakeholders. These preferences are used to shift truck arrivals to the off-peak period which consequently
reduces the high waiting time of trucks at terminals gates. To evaluate the effectiveness of the designed
time slot management system, we have developed a simulation platform that resembles terminal operations
using discrete-event simulation. For the allocation of trucks to a certain time-of-day, a choice-based
stochastic assignment heuristic is designed to approximate the optimum configuration of the truck arrival
shift policy experiment. The optimum truck arrival shift design shows that significant gain can be obtained
even at a low shift rate.
terminals with the aim to reduce congestion at terminal gates. We propose, develop and apply a modeling
framework to assess the impact of a truck arrival shift for a use case in the Port of Rotterdam. This system
is designed to apply control policies on truck inflow while taking the behavioral aspect of Truck Operating
Companies into account. We use discrete choice modeling to infer the time-of-day preferences of Truck
Operating Companies for container pick-ups from the exchange of information between port and hinterland
stakeholders. These preferences are used to shift truck arrivals to the off-peak period which consequently
reduces the high waiting time of trucks at terminals gates. To evaluate the effectiveness of the designed
time slot management system, we have developed a simulation platform that resembles terminal operations
using discrete-event simulation. For the allocation of trucks to a certain time-of-day, a choice-based
stochastic assignment heuristic is designed to approximate the optimum configuration of the truck arrival
shift policy experiment. The optimum truck arrival shift design shows that significant gain can be obtained
even at a low shift rate.
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TNO Identifier
981754
Source title
TRB 101st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
Pages
1-20
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