Title
Truck Arrival Shift: An Advisory-Based Time Slot Management System to Mitigate Waiting Time at Container Terminal gates
Author
Nadi, A.
Nugteren, A.
Rezaei, J.
van Lint, J.W.C.
Snelder, M.
Publication year
2021
Abstract
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.
Subject
Truck Arrival Shift policy
Truck Traffic Control
Time Slot Management System
Simulation-Based Stochastic Assignment
Discrete Choice Modeling
Mobility & Logistics
Urbanisation
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TNO identifier
981754
Source
TRB 101st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, 1-20
Document type
conference paper