不确定环境下的岸桥集卡协调调度耦合模型建立与求解

集装箱码头系统是一个由多个子系统组成的复杂的生产系统,系统内资源的调度也是非线性的复杂问题,同时涉及多种多样的不确定性因素。从不确定性的角度出发,主要考虑码头装卸设备运行参数的概率分布,研究岸桥和集卡之间的协调调度问题。采用多学科变量耦合优化设计的方法,同时考虑了集装箱任务的时间窗约束,分别建立集卡分派子模型和集卡配置子模型。并将完工时刻和集卡数量作为公用设计变量连接两个子模型,建立了协调调度耦合模型。选取上海港某码头的数据编写算例,在Visual Studio 2012环境下调用Gurobi4.0求解该耦合模型,反复迭代计算后得出最优的集卡分派方案相对于最初的调度方案,总延误时间成本下降了90.69%,集卡数量下降了30.76%,验证了本模型的有效性和实用性。     

An allocation approach for external truck tasks appointment in automated container terminal

Ports are the key connection of sea and land transportation. The coordination of container collection and distribution directly affect the handling efficiency of port in the entire supply chain. The optimization of tasks appointment for external trucks is crucial to improving the efficiency of container collection and distribution. The layout of the interchange points of external trucks are streamlined in automated container terminals where external trucks are commonly affected by the seaside operations. The traditional methods of external trucks assignment are inadequately applicable. In this paper an optimization model for the tasks appointment of external trucks is established for the joint optimization of external truck appointment and automated rail mounted gantry crane (ARMG) scheduling in the yard. Multiple objectives are generated including the balance of appointment among periods of time and between blocks. In this model the capacity constraints of the loading operations of external truck and moving operations of ARMGs between the seaside and landside are comprehensively considered. The model is solved by CPLEX and verified through sensitivity analysis. Different task appointment modes and various scenarios are compared and suggestions for selecting an optimization strategy are proposed. The experimental results show that the task appointment solutions effectively prevent the queuing of trucks, and balance the ARMG handling in automated container terminals, and herein the port efficiency is enhanced and the satisfaction of the carriers is promoted accordingly. It is also suggested that terminal managers should consider yard operations, operation capacity and the length of appointment period when considering the optimization of a task appointment schedule. While keeping optimize the appointment modes according to the operational conditions to improve the balance between the seaside and landside operations and reduce the idle of the ARMGs.     

基于作业链的泊位与岸桥协同调度研究

针对泊位与岸桥协同调度问题,引入"链式优化"思路,用作业链的方法分析集装箱装卸作业过程,首先将泊位计划作为开始链单元,采用资源节点优化策略进行分析,以最小化船舶在港总成本为目标建立模型;然后将岸桥卸船作业作为结束链单元,采用任务节点优化策略进行分析,以最小化岸桥最大完工时间为目标建立模型.考虑到作业链的整体性能,设计嵌...     

Storage yard management based on flexible yard template in container terminal

With the bottleneck of port operation moving from the quay side to the yard area, storage yard management is becoming increasingly important in the container terminal. This paper studies on storage yard management in container terminal, a flexible yard template strategy is proposed instead of the fixed yard template strategy. Based on the strategy, an integrated optimization model simultaneously considering space allocation and yard crane deployment for the tactical storage yard management is formulated. Besides, Numerical experiments are conduced to verify the effectiveness of the proposed strategy and mathematical model.     

混堆集装箱箱区内场桥调度模型与算法

在混堆模式下的集装箱港口中,场桥（YC）调度是否合理直接影响着堆场的作业效率。考虑到混堆箱区内各任务对应的内集卡或外集卡到达时刻的不同,以及内外集卡优先级别的差异,构建了一个以所有集卡的等待成本和场桥的总移动成本最小为目标的场桥调度（YCS）模型,并设计了对应的遗传算法,给出了相应遗传算子的操作规则,通过算例的求解验证了模型与算法的有效性。     

Dynamic rolling strategy for multi-vessel quay crane scheduling

This paper focuses on the container loading and unloading problem with dynamic ship arrival times. Using a determined berth plan, in combination with the reality of a container terminal production scheduling environment, this paper proposes a scheduling method for quay cranes that can be used for multiple vessels in a container terminal, based on a dynamic rolling-horizon strategy. The goal of this method is to minimize the operation time of all ships at port and obtain operation equilibrium of quay cranes by establishing a mathematical model and using a genetic algorithm to solve the model. Numerical simulations are applied to calculate the optimal loading and unloading order and the completion time of container tasks on a ship. By comparing this result with the traditional method of quay crane loading and unloading, the paper verifies that the quay crane scheduling method for multiple vessels based on a dynamic rolling-horizon strategy can provide a positive contribution to improve the efficiency of container terminal quay crane loading and unloading and reduce resource wastage.     

不确定干扰约束下外集卡提箱策略

为提高集装箱码头作业效率,降低不确定干扰因素对外集卡提箱作业的影响,提出以滚动窗口策略处理干扰因素的方法,并建立以作业延误惩罚成本与场桥移动成本最小化为目标的混合整数模型,采用遗传算法（GA）进行求解。首先,利用滚动窗口策略得到在无干扰因素情况下的外集卡提箱作业调度方案;其次,当出现干扰因素时触发滚动窗口再调度机制对外集卡提箱作业顺序重新安排;最后,计算出各滚动窗口内最优的调度方案,提出总计划时间内最优作业方案。通过对不同情景下的案例求解结果进行对比分析,实验结果表明在无干扰情况下,滚动窗口策略下的最小作业成本比传统作业方式下降低了9%,而在干扰情况下滚动窗口策略优于传统作业方式15%,进而验证了算法的有效性以及滚动窗口策略对外集卡提箱作业的优越性。     

海铁联运港口混合作业模式下轨道吊与集卡协同调度

在集装箱海铁联运港口中,铁路作业区作为连接铁路运输和水路运输的重要节点,其装卸效率将影响集装箱海铁联运的整体效率。首先,对比分析了“船舶-列车”作业模式和“船舶-堆场-列车”作业模式的特点,并结合海铁联运港口实际作业情况提出了混合作业模式。然后,以轨道吊完工时间最短为目标构建混合整数规划模型,既考虑了班列和船舶的作业时间窗约束,又考虑了轨道吊间干扰和安全距离、轨道吊和集卡接续作业和等待时间等现实约束。针对遗传算法在局部搜索能力方面的不足,将启发式规则与遗传算法相结合设计了求解轨道吊与集卡协同调度问题的混合遗传算法（HGA）,并进行了数值实验。实验结果验证了所提模型和混合算法的有效性。最后通过设计实验分析集装箱数量、岸边箱占比、轨道吊数量和集卡数量对轨道吊完工时间和集卡完工时间的影响,发现同等集装箱数量下岸边箱占比提高时,应通过增加轨道吊数量来有效缩短完工时间。     

A multi-objective genetic algorithm for yard crane scheduling problem with multiple work lines

Due to increasing ships and quay cranes, container terminals operations become more and more busy. The traditional handling based on work line is converted into pool strategy, namely loading and unloading containers with multiple work lines are operating simultaneously. In the paper we discuss the yard crane scheduling problem with multiple work lines in container terminals. We develop a multi-objective 0-1 integer programming model considering the minimum total completion time of all yard cranes and the maximization balanced distribution of the completion time at the same time. With the application of adaptive weight GA approach, the problem can be solved by a multi-objective hybrid genetic algorithm and the Pareto solutions can be finally got. Using the compromised approach, the nearest feasible solution to ideal solution is chosen to be the best compromised Pareto optimal solution of the multi-objective model. The numerical example proves the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed method to the multi-objective yard crane scheduling problem.     

干扰约束下集装箱码头全岸线岸桥调度研究

为实现自动化码头岸桥作业方案的动态调整与优化,提升作业效率,以全岸线的岸桥为研究对象,在岸线以贝位为单位划分的基础上,考虑岸桥装卸作业过程中的安全距离、作业顺序以及贝位任务量等因素,建立了以最小化岸桥最大完工时间和等待时间为目标的混合整数规划模型,并设计了改进的遗传算法对该模型进行求解。通过不同情形的实际算例对模型和算法进行了验证。计算结果表明,该模型可以有效解决全岸线的岸桥调度问题,并得到更优的调度结果;同时改进的遗传算法计算时间随着算例规模的扩大而减少,并且解的质量更高,进而验证了在提升自动化码头作业效率上,全岸线岸桥调度的有效性。     

集卡分批到达模式下的进口箱场桥作业调度优化

在进口箱疏港过程中, 服务于相同客户的若干集卡组成集卡组, 具有相同的抵港时间, 因此, 外部集卡抵港提箱呈现分批到达的特点. 集卡组内作业指派的优劣直接影响场桥的作业效率, 存在较大的优化空间. 对此, 基于翻箱作业不能跨贝进行的现实约束, 将场桥作业调度解构为场桥作业路径优化问题和贝内翻箱作业优化问题两部分并分别建立动态优化模型. 针对场桥作业路径优化问题, 提出一种多项式时间的精确算法并给以证明; 针对贝内翻箱作业优化问题, 设计一种基于MSA的双层启发式算法进行求解. 一系列数值实验的结果显示了所提出优化模型及算法的有效性和鲁棒性.

     

潮汐影响下泊位和岸桥双目标联合调度仿真

针对集装箱船舶大型化导致的港口航道现有水深无法满足大型船舶安全吃水深度,需要借助潮水上涨进出航道的现状,研究了潮汐影响下连续型泊位和动态岸桥联合调度问题。建立了以最小化船舶周转时间和岸桥在船舶间移动次数的双目标混合整数规划模型。基于问题特点,设计了Epsilon约束精确算法和带精英策略的快速非支配排序遗传算法(NSGA-Ⅱ)分别求解小规模和大规模算例的Pareto最优解集,所得结果验证了模型和算法的正确性与有效性。通过潮汐周期灵敏度分析评估了潮汐周期长度对岸桥工作效率和港口服务质量的影响。仿真结果表明,建立的优化模型能够帮助港口企业有效降低潮汐对生产作业的影响,同时提供一组高效的Pareto最优泊位岸桥调度方案提高工作效率和经济效益。     

An optimization methodology for intermodal terminal management

A solution to the problems of resource allocation and scheduling of loading and unloading operations in a container terminal is presented. The two problems are formulated and solved hierarchically. First, the solution of the resource allocation problem returns, over a number of work shifts, a set of quay cranes used to load and unload containers from the moored ships and the set of yard cranes to store those containers on the yard. Then, a scheduling problem is formulated to compute the loading and unloading lists of containers for each allocated crane. The feasibility of the solution is verified against a detailed, discrete-event based, simulation model of the terminal. The simulation results show that the optimized resource allocation, which reduces the costs by [frac13], can be effectively adopted in combination with the optimized loading and unloading list. Moreover, the simulation shows that the optimized lists reduce the number of crane conflicts on the yard and the average length of the truck queues in the terminal.     

动态环境下集装箱码头堆场出口箱箱位分配建模与算法研究

箱位分配是集装箱码头运作优化管理的关键问题.针对出口箱交箱时间的动态不确定性,提出两级调度策略,将出口箱位分配问题分解为贝位分配和贝内具体箱位分配,分别建立规划模型优化龙门吊大车行使距离和翻箱量,并针对两级调度策略特点分别设计开发基于禁忌搜索的求解算法.模拟实验表明,所提出的方法能够适应动态条件变化,改善调度效果,并在合理时间内获得满意解.     

多场桥分区域平衡策划下的集装箱堆场箱位分配问题

集装箱码头堆场出口箱箱位分配和场桥调度对码头运营效率有重要影响. 为了合理分配箱位和调度场桥, 采用分区域平衡策划方法, 在给定批量任务下, 考虑场桥实际作业中的安全距离, 以均衡各场桥作业任务量和减少场 桥的非装卸时间为目标, 建立混合整数规划模型, 并设计遗传算法求解, 通过不同批量任务的实验分析验证所提出方法的有效性. 研究表明, 分区域平衡策划方法可以更好地解决箱位分配和箱区多场桥联合作业的优化问题.

     

集装箱码头设备配置与作业调度集成优化研究

合理配置与调度自动化集装箱码头岸桥、场桥和AGV(automated guided vehicle)等设备对提高码头作业效率,减少能耗具有重要意义.在集装箱码头缓冲区容量有限的条件下,结合AGV路径无冲突约束,建立了以最小化船舶在港时间和最小化总能耗为目标的多目标混合整数规划模型,并设计了双层遗传算法求解方法.以某市自...     

基于主—从两级遗传算法的港口散货物流铲车调度

港口散货物流中,在考虑铲车能力约束条件下合理的铲车调度将提高整体的运作效率,并增强顾客满意度。通过分析货位上待服务的货车与有能力约束的铲车之间的关系,提出了利用主—从级遗传算法解决该类有能力约束的铲车调度问题。首先,建立了以缩短顾客停留时间为目标的数学模型。其次,设计了主、从递阶型式的两级遗传算法。算法中,主级求解铲车到货位的分配问题,从级求解主级所分配铲车能力约束下的货车服务次序及服务时间。另外,为避免非可行解产生,在主从级遗传算法的解码中均设计了启发式规则和惩罚函数。最后,通过一个应用实例的对比实验分析验证了此算法的有效性,并将最优解通过甘特图的形式展现出来。     

Scheduling of collaborative operations of yard cranes and yard trucks for export containers using hybrid approaches

Optimizing collaborative operations for yard cranes (YCs) and yard trucks (YTs) is vital to the overall performance of a container terminal. This research investigates four different hybrid approaches developed for dealing with yard crane scheduling problem (YCSP) and yard truck scheduling problem (YTSP) simultaneously for export containers in the yard side area of a container terminal. First, these approaches use a load-balancing heuristic to assign containers to YCs evenly. Following this, each of them employs a specific heuristic/metaheuristic, such as genetic algorithm (GA), particle swarm optimization (PSO) or subgroups PSO (SGPSO), to generate alternative container loading sequences for each YC. Finally, a simulation model is used to simulate loading and transporting of these export containers, evaluate alternative planning results, and finally output the best planning result. Experiments have been conducted to compare these hybrid approaches. The results show Hybrid4 (SGPSO) outperforms Hybrid1 (Sort-by-bay), Hybrid2 (GA), and Hybrid3 (PSO) in terms of makespan.     

A quay crane dynamic scheduling problem by hybrid evolutionary algorithm for berth allocation planning

A considerable growth in worldwide container transportation needs essential optimization of terminal operations. An operation schedule for berth and quay cranes can significantly affect turnaround time of ships, which is an important objective of all schedules in a port. This paper addresses the problem of determining the berthing position and time of each ship as well as the number of quay cranes assigned to each ship. The objective of the problem is to minimize the sum of the handling time, waiting time and the delay time for every ship. We introduce a formulation for the simultaneous berth and quay crane scheduling problem. Next, we combine genetic algorithm with heuristic to find an approximate solution for the problem. Computational experiments show that the proposed approaches are applicable to solve this difficult but essential terminal operation problem.     

Developing a dynamic rolling-horizon decision strategy for yard crane scheduling

As a hub for land and marine transportation, container terminals play an important role in global trade. In today’s competitive environment, container terminals should improve their service quality, i.e., effective space resource handling and equipment resource scheduling, for their prosperity or even survival. Although intensive researches were attempted on yard crane scheduling, the solutions from these approaches likely reached a local optimum, and thereafter a rational strategy towards global optimum was still lacking. Accordingly, it became an imperative to explore a rational strategy for this purpose. To resolve this problem, a novel dynamic rolling-horizon decision strategy was proposed for yard crane scheduling in this study. Initially, an integer programming model was established to minimize the total task delaying at blocks. Due to the computational scale with regard to the yard crane scheduling problem, a heuristic algorithm, along with a simulation model, was then applied. In this fashion, the simulation model was next investigated to alternate the periods and evaluate the task delaying. Subsequently, a genetic algorithm was employed to optimize the initial solutions generated. Consequently, computational experiments were used to illustrate the proposed strategy for yard crane scheduling and verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach.