Container Safety Storage on a Port Terminal
Résumé
A container terminal is a complex and dynamic system. Many operations occur within the storage area: containers import, containers export and containers shifting. All these operations require the respect of many rules and even laws in order to guarantee the port safety and to prevent risks, especially for the hazardous material storage. This paper proposes an hybrid architecture, using a Multi-Agent System and a Cellular Automaton, to handle the hazardous container storage problem. It is an optimization problem since the aim is to improve the container terminal configuration, that is, the way hazardous containers are dispatched through the terminal. Simple optimization heuristic methods were tested on a terminal with four hazardous container types. We consider then containers as agents, in order to use a Multi-Agent System for the decision aid software, and a Cellular Automaton for modelling the terminal itself. This approach will improve the naive methods first implemented, and should apply to the actual data and constraints of container terminal management.
Origine : Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s)
Loading...