This paper studies the interactions between crane handling and truck transportation in a maritime container terminal by addressing them simultaneously. Yard trucks are shared among different ships, which helps to reduce empty truck trips in the terminal area. The problem is formulated as a...

Relocation of items in a warehousing system is usually used when the handling machines become the bottleneck. This paper addresses the optimization problem of relocation in a warehouse with dynamic operating policy. An integer linear programming formulation is proposed. A two-stage heuristic...

The multi-vehicle covering tour problem (m-CTP) involves finding a minimum-length set of vehicle routes passing through a subset of vertices, subject to constraints on the length of each route and the number of vertices that it contains, such that each vertex not included in any route lies...

This study assessed income-related health inequality and health achievement in children in China, and additionally, examined province-level variations in health achievement. Longitudinal data on 19,801 children under 18 years of age were derived from the China Health and Nutrition Survey....

This paper focuses on deriving optimal refill rules for a multi-purpose reservoir, and aims to maximize utilization benefits under the condition of flood control safety. The entire flood season is divided into multiple sub-seasons (i.e. pre-flood season, main-flood season and post-flood season)....

Through comparison of direct grain production subsidy system in typical countries and regions, such as the United States, EU, Japan and South Korea, this paper evaluated the performance of direct grain production subsidy system. On the basis of comparison and analysis, it summed up experience of...

Flood forecasting plays an essential role in enhancing the safety of residents downstream and preventing or reducing economic losses. One critical issue in flood risk assessment is the determination of the probability distribution of forecast errors. Several investigations, which have been...