Title
Platooning of Automated Ground Vehicles to Connect Port and Hinterland: A Multi-objective Optimization Approach
Author
Pourmohammadzia, N. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics)
Schulte, F. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics) 
Souravlias, D. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics)
Negenborn, R.R. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics)
Contributor
Lalla-Ruiz, Eduardo (editor)
Mes, Martijn (editor)
Voß, Stefan (editor)
Date
2020
Abstract
Automated ground vehicles (AGVs) are essential parts of container operations at many ports. Forming platoons—as conceptually established in trucking—may allow these vehicles to directly cater demand points such as dry ports in the hinterland. In this work, we aim to assess such AGV platoons in terms of operational efficiency and costs, considering the case of the Port of Rotterdam. We propose a multi-objective mixed-integer programming model that minimizes dwell and idle times, on the one hand, and the total cost of the system involving transportation, labor, and platoon formation costs, on the other hand. To achieve Pareto optimal solutions that capture the trade-offs between minimizing cost and time, we apply an augmented epsilon constraint method. The results indicate that all the containers are delivered by AGVs. This not only shortens the dwell time of the containers by decreasing loading/unloading processes and eliminating stacking but also leads to considerable cost savings.
Subject
Automated ground vehicles
Container terminals
Emission analysis
Loading/unloading operations
Platooning
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59747-4_28
Publisher
Springer, Cham, Switzerland
Embargo date
2021-03-22
ISBN
978-3-030-59746-7
Source
Computational Logistics: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference, ICCL 2020
Event
11th International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2020, 2020-09-28 → 2020-09-30, Enschede, Netherlands
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 0302-9743, 12433
Bibliographical note
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Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2020 N. Pourmohammadzia, F. Schulte, D. Souravlias, R.R. Negenborn