Reference
L. Li,
R. R. Negenborn, and B. De
Schutter, "A receding horizon approach for container flow assignment in
intermodal freight transport,"
Proceedings of the 93rd Annual
Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, 14 pp.,
Jan. 2014. Paper 14-0088.
Abstract
Hinterland haulage among major deep-sea ports and the cargos' inland
origins/destinations has become an important component in modern logistic
systems. Intermodal freight transport integrates the use of different
modalities (e.g., trucks, trains, barges.) during the freight delivery process
to improve the reliability and efficiency of hinterland haulage. In this paper,
we first introduce intermodal freight transport and present existing intermodal
container (freight) transport planning approaches. Next, a dynamic intermodal
transport network (ITN) model developed by the authors in an earlier work is
briefly recapitulated. To deal with the dynamic transport demand and the
dynamic traffic conditions in the ITN, we propose a so-called receding horizon
approach to address the intermodal container flow assignment problem between
deep-sea terminals and inland terminals in hinterland cargo transport. The
proposed approach considers the movement of containers as a flow and makes
container flow assignment decisions in a receding horizon fashion during the
container transport process. At each time step of the process, the future
behavior of the ITN is predicted using a dynamic ITN model with load-dependent
freeway transport times fed with information on the current and estimated
transport demands and traffic conditions. To determine container assignments
using this model, a nonlinear optimization problem is solved at each time step.
Simulation studies for intermodal container flow assignments are conducted
using both an all-or-nothing approach and the proposed receding horizon
approach.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{LiNeg:14-008,
author = {Li, Le and Negenborn, Rudi R. and De Schutter, Bart},
title = {A Receding Horizon Approach for Container Flow Assignment in
Intermodal Freight Transport},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation
Research Board},
address = {Washington, DC},
month = jan,
year = {2014},
note = {Paper 14-0088}
}