Positioning of loading units in a transshipment yard storage area
Publication date
2012-01-29
Document type
Forschungsartikel
Author
Organisational unit
Universität Siegen, Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Scopus ID
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Series or journal
OR Spectrum
ISSN
Periodical volume
35
Periodical issue
2
First page
399
Last page
416
Part of the university bibliography
Nein
Language
English
Keyword
Heuristics
Railway systems
Storage area
Transshipment yard
Abstract
This paper considers a decision problem as it arises in a rail-road transshipment yard when unloading a bundle of trains. The loading units, e. g. containers, arriving on trains and occasionally arriving on trucks have to be placed on storage lanes of limited capacity. Loading units are placed and removed keeping stacking and crane rail moves small. We present two NP-hard models and some heuristics for solving the problem. One of these heuristics is currently applied at the yard. The algorithms are then tested using real-life data.
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