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Controls: emulation to improve the performance of container terminals

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Csaba A. Boer,

Yvo SaanenAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '08: Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation

Pages 2639 - 2647

Published: 07 December 2008 Publication History

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Abstract

Nowadays container terminals are struggling with a continuously increasing volume. Therefore, they are searching for solutions to increase throughput capacity without expanding their physical footprint. Furthermore, they aim to increase their productivity on vessels in order to be able to handle bigger ships with larger call sizes in the same time frame. A terminal operating system (TOS) plays a major role in today's terminal operations as it supports planning, scheduling and equipment control. Recently more and more tasks are performed by the TOS - stowage planning, grounding decisions, equipment dispatching - and therefore, they need to be well-tuned to the operation, which remains a terminal specific characteristic. In this paper, an approach is presented to test and tweak the TOS and train operators on a virtual terminal. The implementation of this approach has been successfully applied during several TOS update or replacement projects for Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Norfolk, Virginia and Antwerp.

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WSC '08: Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation

December 2008

3189 pages

ISBN:9781424427086

Editors:
Scott Mason
University of Arkansas
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Ray Hill
Air Force Institute of Technology
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Lars Mönch
University of Hagen
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Oliver Rose
University of Dresden
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Thomas Jefferson
Intel Corporation
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Arizona State University
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Ricki G. Ingalls
Oklahoma State University

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