This paper examines location assignment for outbound containers in container terminals. It is an extension to the previous modeling work of Kim et al. (2000) and Zhang et al. (2010). The previous model was an “optimistic” handling way and gave a moderate punishment for placing a lighter...

This paper examines the Local Container Drayage Problem (LCDP) under an operation mode in which a tractor can be detached from its companion trailer and assigned to a new task. We have incorporated a set of temporal constraints into the classical VRP to realize this operation by utilizing the...

Scheduling track lines at a marshalling station where the objective is to determine the maximal weighted number of trains on the track lines can be modeled as an interval scheduling problem: each job has a fixed starting and finishing time and can only be carried out by an arbitrarily given...

A counterexample is given to illustrate that a key model transformation in the paper entitled "Deriving decision rules to locate export containers in container yards" [Kim, K.H., Park, Y.M., Ryu, K.-R., 2000. Deriving decision rules to locate export containers in container yards. European...