• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.285-291
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• 2004

The productivity of container terminal is determined by its various operation methods. This paper aims at finding out the factors to enhance the productivity of container handling of quay crane, using simulation technique. Three levels of decision making in terminal operation, strategy, and tactics and operation are selected for defining parameters of simulation The result of the simulation and test shows that the significant factors to improve the productivity are the stack height of container, block dispersion and the distance in yard planning for shipment. Decision making in the operation level, however, is of significance in the mixed condition of strategic and tactical level. The result shows meaningful guidelines in decision making under strategic, tactical and operation level.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.103-113
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• 2012

A yard in a container terminal is a temporary storage space before containers are loaded onto the target vessel or delivered to consignees. For improving the utilization of the space in the yard and the efficiency of loading and discharging operations, it is important that operation plans must be carefully constructed in advance. A heuristic method is suggested to solve operation space planning problems considering workloads on handling equipment as well as space availabilities. The operation plans in this paper includes quay crane (QC) schedules and space plans for multiple vessels considering the workload in the container yard of container terminals. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a space planning method and the performance of a new QC scheduling method using a simulation model.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.278-281
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• 2008

Linear motor (LM) based shuttle cars will play an important role in the future transportation systems of marine terminals to cope with increasing container flows. These systems are known as agile port terminals because of their significant advantages. However, routing for multiple shuttle cars is still an open issue. We present a network model of a container yard and propose constrained dynamic programming (DP) for its routing strategy with collision avoidance. The algorithm is a modified version of typical DP which is used to find an optimal path for a single traveler. We evaluate the new algorithm through simulation results for three shuttle cars in a mesh-type container yard.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.30 no.3 s.109
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• pp.203-209
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• 2006

Maritime transport has been occupying the biggest part of the container transportation market. With regard to container terminal management, the planning technology and the space allocation system on the yard are very significant factors to secure the stability of ship and to ensure the reliability of schedules of ship throughout keeping barycenter of vessel by right loading and fast handling of cargoes. The purposes of this paper are to illustrate the existing yard management systems such as Grouping method and Random Grounding method, and then to evaluate and compare the efficiency of yard availability between the existing management system(Grouping method) and Random Grouping which uses the forecasted inbound cargo volume at the gate by Time Base Operation.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.30 no.8 s.114
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• pp.691-697
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• 2006

The objective of this study is to develop the alternative model of the container transport vehicle of high productivity for the purpose of the increase of terminal productivity. In order to develop the alternatives, we analyze the technical specification of existing transport vehicles such as YT(Yard Tractor), S/C(Straddle Carrier), SHC(Shuttle Carrier), and AGV(Automated Guided Vehicle) and investigate the operation and performance of transport vehicles to classify the technical generation. The development alternative of transport vehicle presented in this study will usefully be apply to advanced container terminal with higher productivity in near future.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.367-372
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• 2006

The objective of this study is to develop the alternative of the container transport vehicle of new type for the purpose of the increase of terminal productivity. In order to develop the alternatives, we analyze the technical specification of existing transport vehicles such as YT(Yard Trailer), S/C(Straddle Carrier), SHC(Shuttle Carrier), AGV(Automated Guided Vehicle) and investigate the operation and performance of transport vehicles to classify the technical generation. The development alternative of transport vehicle is presented in this study is very useful to advanced container terminal with higher productivity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.131-132
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• 2009

The container terminal can be divided into berth-side, yard area and gate. Until now, many studies related to the improvement of the terminal operation efficiency have been focused on berth and yard productivity. With regard to gate operation, existing studies were examined from hardware perspectives such as non-stop system using RFID(Radio Frequency Identification) or OCR(Optical Character Reader). Relatively little research has been curried out on the improvement of the gate in/out process. In this regard, this paper proposes the method to improve the terminal operation efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.125-135
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• 1998

This paper aims to propose a design for simulation systems for container terminal operation evaluation. The systems cover both terminal design simulation for medium and long tern decision making and terminal operations simulation for day to day decision making. And both systems include the container terminal operation components, quay, yard and gate operations. For the flexible and efficient application of the systems, we designed the systems with three modules such as "Define Module"."Simulation Module" and "Animation Module". "Animation Module".ule&".ot;.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.1106-1110
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• 2010

This paper proposes a method of optimizing a stacking strategy for an automated container terminal using multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). Since the yard productivities of seaside and landside are conflicting objectives to be optimized, it is impossible to maximize them simultaneously. Therefore, we derive a Pareto optimal set instead of a single best solution using an MOEA. Preliminary experiments showed that the population is frequently stuck in local optima because of the difficulty of the given problem depending on the yard occupancy rate. To cope with this problem, we propose another method of simultaneously optimizing two problems with different difficulties so that diverse solutions can be preserved in the population. Experimental results showed the proposed method can derive better stacking policies than the compared method solving a single problem given the same computational costs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• v.1
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• pp.325-330
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• 2006

The container terminal is the unified transportation system which connects between a land transportation and a sea transportation. This system has many subsystems such as ship operation, yard transfer operation, yard storage system, gate operation, and information manage system. This paper presents a method of modeling a simulator with which user can evaluate the efficiency of the equipment and allocation policies in the container terminal. The final purpose is to estimate the efficiency of each equipments and the distribution policies. In a design step in the simulator development. We suggest the Object Oriented method with which the developer can easily design, because the object oriented method has the advantages of reusability and modularity.