Reference
M. Burger and B. De Schutter, "Energy-efficient transportation over flowing
water,"
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference
on Networking, Sensing and Control, Paris, France, 6 pp., Apr. 2013.
Paper ThC02.4.
Abstract
Transportation of water is necessary to manage the water levels in rivers to
ensure minimum depths for freight, to buffer water to avoid flooding downstream
during wet periods, or to save water for anticipated dry periods. This
manipulation of water flows influences the speed of the water in the rivers and
canals, and thereby it affects the speed and energy consumption of vessels used
for transportation over water. When considering the problem of scheduling
micro-ferries in a harbour, the influence of fluctuating water speeds (due to
the tide or river flows) can be taken into account in the aim of providing
energy-efficient schedules for pick-ups and deliveries of passengers. This
paper introduces the effect of flowing water on energy-efficient scheduling,
and it proposes a mixed-integer linear programming formulation for solving the
problem.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{BurDeS:13-012,
author = {Burger, Mernout and De Schutter, Bart},
title = {Energy-Efficient Transportation over Flowing Water},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on
Networking, Sensing and Control},
address = {Paris, France},
month = apr,
year = {2013},
note = {Paper ThC02.4}
}