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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2008, Vol. 9 Issue (8): 1083-1089    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.A071522
Electrical & Electronic Engineering     
AS/RS based yard and yard planning
Ya-hong HU, Zheng-dong ZHU, Wen-jing HSU
College of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, China; Department of Computer Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
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Abstract  In this paper, we apply the split-platform automated storage/retrieval systems (SP-AS/RSs) (Hu et al., 2005) to store containers in the yard to improve the yard performance and to increase the utilization of the yard space. The layout of an SP-AS/RS based yard is described in detail. To achieve an efficient operation, we present a novel yard space allocation policy called the ‘second-carrier-based allocation policy’, which can help to alleviate the out-of-sequence problem of containers and the congestion of vehicles at the AS/RS racks. Different allocation policies are compared by an integrated container terminal simulation system. The simulation results show that the second-carrier-based policy is very efficient and has the potential to offer high terminal performance.

Key words： Container terminal      Automated storage/retrieval system (AS/RS)      Yard planning      Transportation system     
Received: 26 September 2007     
CLC:  TP29  
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Ya-hong HU, Zheng-dong ZHU, Wen-jing HSU. AS/RS based yard and yard planning. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2008, 9(8): 1083-1089.

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