TY - GEN
T1 - Platooning of Automated Ground Vehicles to Connect Port and Hinterland
T2 - 11th International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2020
AU - Pourmohammadzia, N.
AU - Schulte, Frederik
AU - Souravlias, Dimitris
AU - Negenborn, Rudy R.
N1 - Accepted Author Manuscript
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Automated ground vehicles (AGVs) are essential parts of container operations at many ports. Forming platoons—as conceptually established in trucking—may allow these vehicles to directly cater demand points such as dry ports in the hinterland. In this work, we aim to assess such AGV platoons in terms of operational efficiency and costs, considering the case of the Port of Rotterdam. We propose a multi-objective mixed-integer programming model that minimizes dwell and idle times, on the one hand, and the total cost of the system involving transportation, labor, and platoon formation costs, on the other hand. To achieve Pareto optimal solutions that capture the trade-offs between minimizing cost and time, we apply an augmented epsilon constraint method. The results indicate that all the containers are delivered by AGVs. This not only shortens the dwell time of the containers by decreasing loading/unloading processes and eliminating stacking but also leads to considerable cost savings.
AB - Automated ground vehicles (AGVs) are essential parts of container operations at many ports. Forming platoons—as conceptually established in trucking—may allow these vehicles to directly cater demand points such as dry ports in the hinterland. In this work, we aim to assess such AGV platoons in terms of operational efficiency and costs, considering the case of the Port of Rotterdam. We propose a multi-objective mixed-integer programming model that minimizes dwell and idle times, on the one hand, and the total cost of the system involving transportation, labor, and platoon formation costs, on the other hand. To achieve Pareto optimal solutions that capture the trade-offs between minimizing cost and time, we apply an augmented epsilon constraint method. The results indicate that all the containers are delivered by AGVs. This not only shortens the dwell time of the containers by decreasing loading/unloading processes and eliminating stacking but also leads to considerable cost savings.
KW - Automated ground vehicles
KW - Container terminals
KW - Emission analysis
KW - Loading/unloading operations
KW - Platooning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85092221491&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-59747-4_28
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-59747-4_28
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85092221491
SN - 978-3-030-59746-7
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 428
EP - 442
BT - Computational Logistics
A2 - Lalla-Ruiz, Eduardo
A2 - Mes, Martijn
A2 - Voß, Stefan
PB - Springer
CY - Cham, Switzerland
Y2 - 28 September 2020 through 30 September 2020
ER -