Handbook of Terminal Planning

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Böse, Jürgen W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, 49
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Management.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.

Container Terminals (CT) operate as central nodes in worldwide hub-and-spoke networks and link ocean-going vessels with smaller feeder vessels as well as with inbound and outbound hinterland transportation systems using road, rail, or inland waterways. The volume of transcontinental container flows...

Table of Contents:

• General Considerations on Container Terminal Planning
• Operating Systems of Container Terminals: A Compendious Overview
• Automated Shuttle Carrier® Concept
• Sustainable Container Terminals: A Design Approach
• Modeling Techniques in Planning of Terminals: The Quantitiative Approach
• Modeling Techniques in Planning of Terminals: The Quantitiative Approach
• Simulation Technology in Planning, Implementation and Operations of Container Terminals
• Step by Step Towards the Goal
• Simulation of Container Ship Arrivals and Quay Occupation
• A Technique to Determine the Right Crane Capacity for a Continuous Quay
• Planning Approach for Dimensioning of Automated Traffic Areas at Seaport Container Terminals
• Cost and Performance Evaluation Impacts of Container Vessels on Seaport Container Terminals
• Planning Container Terminal Layouts Considering Equipment Types and Storage Block Design
• Container Rehandling at Maritime Container Terminals
• RMG Crane Scheduling and Stacking
• Opportunities to Exploit Capacity Reserves of the Hinterland Connection to Road Transport
• Improving Efficiency of Drayage Operations at Seaport Container Terminals Through the Use of an Appointment System
• The Contribution of the Dry Port Concept to the Extension of Port Life Cylces
• Data Flow Across the Maritime Value Chain
• Specialized Planning Issues
• Importance of Hinterland Transport Networks for Operational Efficiency in Seaport Container Terminals.