Integrated Berth Allocation and Quay Crane Assignment With Uncertain Maintenance Activities

Ying Li (1) , Feng Chu (2) , Feifeng Zheng (1) , Imed Kacem (3)

1 Glorious Sun School of Business and Management
2 IBISC - Informatique, BioInformatique, Systèmes Complexes
3 LCOMS - Laboratoire de Conception, Optimisation et Modélisation des Systèmes

Maritime transportation has kept a steadily fast development in recent decades, which puts higher requirement to the port operation. Lots of works addressed the integrated scheduling of berth and quay crane, however, most of them ignore the impact of maintenance activities, especially, the uncertain quay crane maintenance. In this paper, we investigate an integrated berth allocation and quay crane assignment with uncertain quay crane maintenance activities, and establish a stochastic integer linear programming model to minimize the excepted total turnaround time of vessels. A sample average approximation method is applied to solve the problem. Numerical experiments with 90 instances are conducted, which verify the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed model and method.

Mots clés: Berth allocation; Quay crane assignment; Stochastic programming; Uncertain maintenance activities; Maintenance engineering; Resource management; Cranes; Stochastic processes; Containers; Programming; Uncertainty

Domaines: Recherche opérationnelle [math.OC]

Ying Li, Feng Chu, Feifeng Zheng, Imed Kacem. Integrated Berth Allocation and Quay Crane Assignment With Uncertain Maintenance Activities. International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM 2019), Sep 2019, Shanghai, China. pp.1-6, ⟨10.1109/IESM45758.2019.8948115⟩. ⟨hal-02471969⟩