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Planning Inland Container Shipping: A Stochastic Assignment Problem

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Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA 2016)

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In this paper a case study is presented concerning the collection and delivery of containers between a container terminal and inland ports by barges making a round trip along these ports. The goal is to maximise the number containers arriving on time, transported by barge. To account for uncertain release times of the containers a simulation algorithm is used when making online decisions whether to assign a container to a barge or not. Using a realistic problem instance it is shown that the proposed simulation algorithm is the better performing one among several other benchmark solution methods.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Dr. T.A.B. Dollevoet, Erasmus University Rotterdam, for his useful input and comments during this research.

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  1. TNO, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Kees Kooiman, Frank Phillipson & Alex Sangers

  2. Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Kees Kooiman

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Kooiman, K., Phillipson, F., Sangers, A. (2016). Planning Inland Container Shipping: A Stochastic Assignment Problem. In: Wittevrongel, S., Phung-Duc, T. (eds) Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications. ASMTA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9845. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43904-4_13

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