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Journal articles on the topic "Intermodal Rail Terminals"
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Wang, Li, and Xiaoning Zhu. "Container Loading Optimization in Rail–Truck Intermodal Terminals Considering Energy Consumption." Sustainability 11, no. 8 (April 22, 2019): 2383. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11082383.
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Rail–truck intermodal terminals are an important type of dry port and play a vital role in inland freight transport. This paper addresses the container loading problem in rail–truck intermodal terminals considering energy consumption under the sustainability concept. We analyze the effect factors of energy efficiency for container loading operations and develop an optimization model to minimize the total handling time and container reshuffling. A genetic algorithm is designed to obtain the optimal container loading sequence. Computational experiments on a specific Chinese rail–truck intermodal terminal were conducted to evaluate the performance of our approach. Results show our approach has a good performance for different sizes, and the total handing time, reshuffling times and energy consumption of the handling task are prominently decreased.
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Pengelly, Sean P., and C. Tyler Dick. "Economics and Planning of Short-Haul and Short-Line Railway Intermodal Service." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2608, no. 1 (January 2017): 105–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2608-12.
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To develop a more competitive and efficient transportation system, railroads have engaged in intermodal freight transportation of both containers and trailers. Though intermodal rail operations have increased dramatically since the 1950s, traffic trends have also evolved with shipper demands, improved rail infrastructure, and enhanced operational strategy. Many former main railroad lines are now operated by short-line and regional carriers. Industrial centers that were once home to intermodal terminals, both large and small, have lost their intermodal connectivity since short-line and regional railroads typically do not handle intermodal traffic. With local terminals lost, shippers have been forced to increase drayage distances to centralized Class I railroad intermodal terminals. With the economies of scale afforded by recent record levels of intermodal rail traffic, opportunities have arisen to revitalize short-haul intermodal service. In many instances, short-line and regional railroads have taken this opportunity to increase traffic and revenue on their own lines as well as increase traffic on existing intermodal lanes and bring relief to over-capacity centralized inter-modal terminals. In most instances, Class I railroads remain involved through operations and marketing of the short-haul service as part of their larger national network. This report summarizes ongoing research that, through examination of current and discontinued short-haul intermodal operations and communication with rail carriers of all sizes, identifies how the strengths of short-line and regional railroads can be leveraged to improve the efficiency of the Class I railroad intermodal network.
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Petrović, Marjana, Tomislav Josip Mlinarić, and Ivana Šemanjski. "Location Planning Approach for Intermodal Terminals in Urban and Suburban Rail Transport." PROMET - Traffic&Transportation 31, no. 1 (February 28, 2019): 101–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.7307/ptt.v31i1.3034.
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The aim of this study is to find a suitable methodology for planning the locations of intermodal terminals in an urban transit context. The location planning approach, which has been developed and makes this possible, consists of three phases. The first phase is the making of the geographic information system (GIS) database which enables determining the potential locations of intermodal terminals. For every potential location of the terminal, the number of citizens gravitating to a certain terminal is calculated, which at the same time represents the output from the first phase of the model. The second phase uses an optimization algorithm in order to determine the locations of the intermodal terminals. The optimization algorithm provides several solutions for a different number of terminals, and such solutions need to be evaluated. The main contribution of this research is in upgrading the location planning approach by introducing an additional step in assessing the solutions obtained by the optimization algorithm.
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Kubowicz, Daria. "The function and importance of the DCT Gdańsk in terms of intermodal transportation development in Poland." AUTOBUSY – Technika, Eksploatacja, Systemy Transportowe 19, no. 6 (June 30, 2018): 1068–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.24136/atest.2018.230.
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Intermodal transportation is becoming more and more willingly used in the goods supply chain in view of its specific, flexible characteristics. In Poland, intermodal transportation is based primarily on land-sea and rail-road transportation, using mostly containers. The most frequently used containers in 2017 were the 40-feet containers which accounted for over 57% of all containers transported. Contribution of the railway transportation in intermodal transportation is increasing every year. Despite the slow growth, both, planned as well as already carried out investments in intermodal terminals, indicate continuous growing pattern. Many operators strive to improve the technical condition of nodal and linear infrastructure that leads to raising the quality of services provided. Large number of investments aimed at improving the functioning of intermodal transportation in Poland are made by PKP PLK S.A which is the conductor rail operator. The most important of them include improvement of the railway lines technical condition of the major routes, that would increase the average operational speed. The largest intermodal terminal in Poland is the DCT Gdańsk located in the Northern Port in Gdańsk. The annual transshipment ability of the terminal after the investments made is set at 3 million TEU. The terminal is connected with the hinterland by road and rail connections. Due to high quality technical equipment it is able to serve up to 9 trains a day which adds up to almost 300 trains per month. It provides railway connection to almost all overland intermodal terminals in the country. DCT Gdańsk gladly invests in development of the railway transportation and endeavour to achieve rail system development not only at the terminal, but also throughout Poland.
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Pienaar, Wessel. "The influence of size, location and functions of freight rail terminals on urban form and land use." Corporate Ownership and Control 13, no. 3 (2016): 250–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv13i3c1p11.
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This article outlines how the size, location and scope of activities of freight rail terminals influence urban form and land use. The nature of freight rail stations is outlined, and the classes of trains that make use of these facilities are described. According to size, railway freight stations can be divided into four groups: (1) railway halts; (2) small-sized goods stations; (3) medium-sized goods stations; and (4) large-sized goods stations. The factors that determine the location of stations are discussed. Rail freight stations can be divided functionally into four broad classes: (1) break-bulk rail terminals; (2) bulk rail terminals; (3) roll-on/roll-off rail terminals; and (4) intermodal terminals. The functions of the four rail terminal classes are described. The paper discusses how rail freight terminals can influence urban form and land use. Finally the conclusions of the study are presented.
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Black, John, Violeta Roso, Eli Marušić, and Nikolina Brnjac. "Issues in Dry Port Location and Implementation in Metropolitan Areas: The Case of Sydney, Australia." Transactions on Maritime Science 7, no. 1 (April 20, 2018): 41–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.7225/toms.v07.n01.004.
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The basic idea behind the concept of a dry port is a more efficient seaport access, movement of the seaport’s interface inland with the shift of flows from road to rail. The application of the concept results in a reduction of road transport to/from the seaport together with the associated broad social and environmental benefits. This paper examines the complex factors influencing the timeframes and location of close inland intermodal terminals with dry port characteristics - metropolitan intermodal terminals, as they are usually referred to - and their implementation, with a case study of the Sydney metropolitan region and Port Botany, Australia. The issues surrounding suburban freight terminals are a sub-set of the wider social and environmental problems of the interactions of seaports with their hinterland. Port Botany and its close inland intermodal terminals are very distinctive: there are very few ports in the world with such a well-developed network of close inland intermodal terminals. Nevertheless, the Moorebank terminal was first mooted in 2003 but the latest plans anticipate operations commencing in 2018. The paper illustrates some problematic aspects of long timeframes for the development of significant freight infrastructure.
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Yang, Yijia, Xiaoning Zhu, and Ali Haghani. "Multiple Equipment Integrated Scheduling and Storage Space Allocation in Rail–Water Intermodal Container Terminals Considering Energy Efficiency." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2673, no. 3 (February 22, 2019): 199–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198118825474.
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The rail–water coordinated operation area in a container terminal is the key place to operate the transshipment of intermodal containers between the rail and the sea—the handling efficiency in which can affect the overall transport turnover efficiency. A complicated operational process for various handling equipment exists in this coordinated operation area and can lead to a large amount of energy consumption and environmental pollution. This study proposes an integrated optimization approach to manage the multiple equipment integrated scheduling and storage space allocation problem in an energy-efficient way. A bi-objective optimization model is proposed to minimize the overall operation time and energy consumption, in which the handling operations of imported and exported intermodal containers are considered simultaneously. A genetic algorithm based heuristic algorithm is developed to solve the problem. Results from computational experiments indicate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed model and algorithm, verifying that a near-optimum solution can be obtained for large-scale problems efficiently, which contributes to the improvement of operation services in rail–water intermodal container terminals.
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Yan, Baicheng, Xiaoning Zhu, Der-Horng Lee, Jian Gang Jin, and Li Wang. "Transshipment operations optimization of sea-rail intermodal container in seaport rail terminals." Computers & Industrial Engineering 141 (March 2020): 106296. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2020.106296.
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Guo, Peng, Wenming Cheng, Yi Wang, and Nils Boysen. "Gantry crane scheduling in intermodal rail-road container terminals." International Journal of Production Research 56, no. 16 (March 2, 2018): 5419–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2018.1444812.
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Chen, Xuchao, Shiwei He, Tingting Li, and Yubin Li. "A Simulation Platform for Combined Rail/Road Transport in Multiyards Intermodal Terminals." Journal of Advanced Transportation 2018 (2018): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5812939.
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With the rapid development of multiyards railway intermodal terminal (MYRIT) construction in China, performance evaluation has become an important issue for terminal design and management departments. Due to the complexity of the multiyards terminal and the associated rail network, the train moving process and related terminal operations have become more complicated compared with the traditional intermodal container terminal. However, in general simulation platforms, the train moving process is simplified and train route scheduling rules are not considered in existing simulation models. In order to provide an accurate and comprehensive quantitative evaluation tool for MYRIT, a simulation platform based on the Timed Petri Net model has been developed, which can offer decision support for terminal design and management departments. In this platform, a yards and facilities layout module has been created to give simulation users access to designing the railway network on this platform. And a train route dispatching simulation method has been integrated to provide an accurate simulation of the train moving process. Based on a real case of Qianchang railway intermodal terminal that is located in Fujian Province, China, the platform is thoroughly validated against historical data. And the test scenarios show that train routes arrangement and handling equipment configuration both have a significant influence on overall terminal performance, which need to be carefully considered during terminal design and management.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Intermodal Rail Terminals"
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Mitrovic, Branko. "The effects of emerging technologies in rail yards and intermodal terminals." Thesis, KTH, Transportplanering, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-263247.
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This paper analyzes the effects of emerging technologies in intermodal terminals and marshallingyards, based on “Intelligent Video Gate” project within the H2020 – Shift2Rail initiative. Projectaim is to initiate the next logical step to a higher level of automation in terminals and to reduce thelead-time needed for the identification/verification process of freight trains. Thesis projectexamine different emerging technologies that could be applied in intermodal terminal automationand possibilities for their application in different processes. Technologies considered in researchare RFID, cameras, scanners, sensors, GPS and scales. Marshalling yard as important freight nodeon railway network is included in research, where departing processes are examined, andtechnology proposed for automation of brake test procedures.Qualitative research is used as a method to investigate current processes in intermodal terminaland marshalling yards. This research included all the processes from train arrival to the terminal,through transshipment processes and train departure from the terminal. Research also conducteddifferent steps which Intermodal Transport Units go through during operations in intermodalterminal. Knowing processes enabled next step in qualitative research, finding the opportunitiesfor improvements in operations. Third step in qualitative research investigated different emergingtechnologies and as a result gave opportunities and obstacles behind each of technologies.Complementing findings from qualitative research, model simulation is performed, based onoperations in Malmö Kombiterminal. Intermodal terminal operations are simulated in Planimate®software. Addition to the qualitative research is finding the opportunities for improvements inmarshalling yards and proposing emerging technology that could be applied.Master thesis successfully accomplished the task of finding the effects of emerging technologiesin intermodal terminals and marshalling yards. The methodology concluded to be appropriate onefor building task solution. The project is viewed as a breakthrough in this domain but theexpectations for Intelligent Video Gate should stay realistic and proceeded carefully. Eliminationof brake test in marshalling yards is also very optimistic goal but should be followed by appropriatesafety rules and regulations. Simulation of complex systems such as intermodal terminals andmarshalling yards is the task that should be supported by accurate and detailed data, in order tokeep the model and results more realistic.
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Denisis, Athanasios 1970. "Improving performance of intermodal terminals through automation and rail-for-truck modal switch." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91354.
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Tiago, Renato Pereira. "Estudo de pontos promissores para instalação de terminais intermodais rodo-ferroviários de contêineres no Estado de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2002. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18137/tde-08012016-132824/.
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Este trabalho visa identificar, a partir de um levantamento de dados dos fluxos de cargas conteinerizadas e custos operacionais de transporte, os locais mais promissores para a instalação de futuros terminais intermodais de carga rodo-ferroviários, com auxílio de um Sistema de Informações Geográficas (TransCAD), objetivando a redução dos custos e otimização das operações logísticas envolvidas na rede de transportes do estado de São Paulo. Simulações são feitas para a instalação de até dez terminais intermodais rodo-ferroviários em pontos estratégicos do interior do Estado, considerando-se duas condições: a primeira com um terminal existente só em Santos e todos os pontos candidatos escolhidos pelo modelo de localização das p-medianas do TransCAD e, a segunda, considerando-se, além de Santos, os oito terminais intermodais já existentes no Estado. Apresenta-se uma análise dos custos de rede e os mapas temáticos de áreas de influência de cada uma das soluções obtidas pelo modelo. Os resultados são comparados com o trabalho de TONDO (1992). Conclui-se que as soluções encontradas através de um novo enfoque de modelagem do problema, são significativamente diferentes daqueles propostos por TONDO (1992).Based on a data collection of containerized cargo flows and operational transport costs, this study has the objective of identifying promising points to install future road-rail intermodal container terminals, using a Geographic Information System (TransCAD) and the objective function of reducing costs and optimising logistic operations on the transport network of the state of São Paulo. Simulations are presented for the instalation of up to ten road-rail intermodal terminals at strategic locations in the interior of the State, considering two conditions: the first one, with only one terminal placed at the port of Santos and all the candidate points beeing chosen by the p-median location model of TransCAD, and the second one, considering Santos and the other eight existing intermodal terminals in the State. An analysis of the network costs and thematic maps of the influence areas of each solution are presented. The results are compared with the study by TONDO (1992). It is concluded that the solutions obtained by this new modeling focus of the problem, are considerably different from the ones obtained by TONDO (1992).
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Kordnejad, Behzad. "Intermodal Transport Cost Model and Intermodal Distribution in Urban Freight." KTH, Trafik och logistik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-122694.
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This study aims to model a regional rail based intermodal transport system and to examine the feasibility of it through a case study for a shipper of daily consumables distributing in an urban area and to evaluate it regarding cost and emissions. The idea of an intermodal line train is that of making intermediate stops along the route thus enabling the coverage of a larger market area than conventional intermodal services, hence reducing the high cost associated with feeder transports, the congestion on the road network and generated externalities. The results of the case study indicate that the most critical parameters for the feasibility of such a system are the loading space utilization of the train and the cost for terminal handling.QC 20130531
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Bruns, Florian. "Optimization of operative planning in rail-road terminals." Doctoral thesis, 2014. https://repositorium.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-2014091612814.
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Rail-road terminals are the chain links in intermodal rail-road transportation where standardized load units (containers, swap bodies and trailers) are transfered from trucks to trains and vice versa. We consider three subproblems of the operational planning process at rail-road terminals that terminal operators are facing in their daily operations. These are the optimization problems storage planning, load planning and crane planning. The aim of storage planning is to determine load unit storage positions for a set of load units in a partially filled storage area. Here, different restrictions like non-overlapping of stored load units have to be respected. The objective of storage planning is to minimize the total transportation costs and the number of load units that are not stored at the ground level. For the load planning we assume a scenario of overbooked trains. So, the aim of load planning is to assign a subset of the load units that are booked on a train to feasible positions on the wagons such that the utilization of the train is maximized and the costs for the handling in the terminal are minimized. For the feasible positioning of load units length and weight restrictions for the wagons and the train have to be respected. For the load planning of trains we consider a deterministic version and a robust approach motivated by uncertainty in the input data. The last considered optimization problem is the crane planning. The crane planning determines the transfer of the load units by crane between the different transportation modes. For each crane a working plan is computed which contains a subset of the load units that have to be handled together with individual start times for the transfer operations. For the load units which have to be transfered in the terminal, storage and load planning compute destination positions (inside the terminal). These destination positions are part of the input for the crane planning. The main objective of crane planning is to minimize the total length of the empty crane moves that have to be performed between successive transports of load units by the cranes. We provide MIP-models for all three subproblems of the operational planning process at rail-road terminals. For the storage and crane planning we also propose fast heuristics. Furthermore, we present and compare computational results based on real world data for all subproblems. The main contributions of this thesis concern load and storage planning. For the deterministic load planning we provide the first model that represents all practical constraints
including physical weight restrictions. For the load planning we furthermore present robustness approaches for different practical uncertainties. For the storage planning we provide complexity results for different variants. For the practical setting we developed a heuristic which is able to compute solutions of high quality in a small amount of runtime.
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Mantovani, Serena. "The load planning problem for double-stack intermodal trains." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24326.
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Les trains qui transportent des conteneurs empilés (en deux niveaux) sont un élément important
du reseau de transport nord-americain. Le probleme de chargement des wagons correspond un
probleme operationnel d'utilisation rencontre dans les terminaux ferroviaires. Elle consiste
optimiser l’affectation des conteneurs des emplacements spécifiques sur les wagons.
Ce mémoire est centré sur un article scientifique traitant le chargement optimal publié dans
le Journal Européen de Recherche Opérationnelle (Volume 267, Numéro 1, Pages 107-119, 2018).
Nous avons formule un modele lineaire en nombres entiers (ILP) et apporte un certain nombre
de contributions. Premierement, nous avons proposé une méthodologie générale qui peut traiter
des wagons double ou simple empilement avec des «patrons» de chargement arbitraires. Les
les patrons tiennent un compte des dépendances de chargement entre les plateformes sur un wagon
donne. Deuxiemement, nous avons modéliser les restrictions du centre de gravité (COG), les
regles d’empilement et un nombre de restrictions techniques de chargement associees certains
types de conteneurs et / ou de marchandises. Les resultats montrent que nous pouvons resoudre
des instances de taille realiste dans un d´elai raisonnable en utilisant un solveur ILP commercial
et nous illustrons que le fait de ne pas tenir compte de la correspondance conteneurs-wagons
ainsi que des restrictions COG peut conduire une surestimation de la capacité disponible.Double-stack trains are an important component of the railroad transport network for containerized cargo in specific markets such as North America. The load planning problem embodies an operational problem commonly faced in rail terminals by operators. It consists in optimizing the assignment of containers to specific locations on the train. The work in this thesis is centered around a scientific paper on the optimization on load planning problem for double stack-trains, published in the European Journal of Operation Research (Volume 267, Issue 1, Pages 1-398) on 16 May 2018. In the paper, we formulated an ILP model and made a number of contributions. First, we proposed a general methodology that can deal with double- or single-stack railcars with arbitrary loading patterns. The patterns account for loading dependencies between the platforms on a given railcar. Second, we modeled Center of gravity (COG) restrictions, stacking rules and a number of technical loading restrictions associated with certain types of containers and/or goods. Results show that we can solve realistic size instances in reasonable time using a commercial ILP solver and we illustrate that failing to account for containers-to-cars matching as well as COG restrictions may lead to an overestimation of the available train capacity.
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Foolchand, Paris. "An investigation into the efficiency of the port / rail interface at the Port of Durban." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2376.
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Trade liberalization and resultantly globalization has led to the relative free flow of goods, services, capital and people.
The transport system in South Africa must be highly reliable and rapid to contribute to economic development. The focus of this research study is on the Port/Rail Interface in the Port of Durban which critically assesses the transfer of goods particularly from rail transport to and from vessels within the port precinct. Some of the major constraints identified in the study related to poor infrastructure, operations and levels of services; lack of maintenance, availability of rolling stock, locomotives and cargo stacking space.
Transnet's role is pivotal in providing efficient port and rail operations and is currently upgrading infrastructure, operations and capacity of the port and rail services.
One of the main objectives of the study is to present recommendations to Transnet management that arise out of the shortcomings identified during the course of the research study.Transport Economics
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Perrault, William. "Load sequencing for double-stack trains." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22130.
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Goyette, Kyle. "On two sequential problems : the load planning and sequencing problem and the non-normal recurrent neural network." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24314.
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The work in this thesis is separated into two parts. The first part deals with the load planning and sequencing problem for double-stack intermodal railcars, an operational problem found at many rail container terminals. In this problem, containers must be assigned to a platform on which the container will be loaded, and the loading order must be determined. These decisions are made with the objective of minimizing the costs associated with handling the containers, as well as minimizing the cost of containers left behind. The deterministic version of the problem can be cast as a shortest path problem on an ordered graph. This problem is challenging to solve because of the large size of the graph. We propose a two-stage heuristic based on the Iterative Deepening A* algorithm to compute solutions to the load planning and sequencing problem within a five-minute time budget. Next, we also illustrate how a Deep Q-learning algorithm can be used to heuristically solve the same problem.The second part of this thesis considers sequential models in deep learning. A recent strategy to circumvent the exploding and vanishing gradient problem in recurrent neural networks (RNNs) is to enforce recurrent weight matrices to be orthogonal or unitary. While this ensures stable dynamics during training, it comes at the cost of reduced expressivity due to the limited variety of orthogonal transformations. We propose a parameterization of RNNs, based on the Schur decomposition, that mitigates the exploding and vanishing gradient problem, while allowing for non-orthogonal recurrent weight matrices in the model.Le travail de cette thèse est divisé en deux parties. La première partie traite du problème de planification et de séquencement des chargements de conteneurs sur des wagons, un problème opérationnel rencontré dans de nombreux terminaux ferroviaires intermodaux. Dans ce problème, les conteneurs doivent être affectés à une plate-forme sur laquelle un ou deux conteneurs seront chargés et l'ordre de chargement doit être déterminé. Ces décisions sont prises dans le but de minimiser les coûts associés à la manutention des conteneurs, ainsi que de minimiser le coût des conteneurs non chargés. La version déterministe du problème peut être formulé comme un problème de plus court chemin sur un graphe ordonné. Ce problème est difficile à résoudre en raison de la grande taille du graphe. Nous proposons une heuristique en deux étapes basée sur l'algorithme Iterative Deepening A* pour calculer des solutions au problème de planification et de séquencement de la charge dans un budget de cinq minutes. Ensuite, nous illustrons également comment un algorithme d'apprentissage Deep Q peut être utilisé pour résoudre heuristiquement le même problème. La deuxième partie de cette thèse examine les modèles séquentiels en apprentissage profond. Une stratégie récente pour contourner le problème de gradient qui explose et disparaît dans les réseaux de neurones récurrents (RNN) consiste à imposer des matrices de poids récurrentes orthogonales ou unitaires. Bien que cela assure une dynamique stable pendant l'entraînement, cela se fait au prix d'une expressivité réduite en raison de la variété limitée des transformations orthogonales. Nous proposons une paramétrisation des RNN, basée sur la décomposition de Schur, qui atténue les problèmes de gradient, tout en permettant des matrices de poids récurrentes non orthogonales dans le modèle.
Book chapters on the topic "Intermodal Rail Terminals"
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Pace, Giuseppe, and Stefano Ricci. "Multimodal, Intermodal and Terminals." In Sustainable Rail Transport, 193–206. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58643-4_11.
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Kortschak, Bernd H. "INTEGRATION OF AGVS IN INTERMODAL RAIL OPERATIONS AT DEEP SEA TERMINALS." In Advances in Maritime Logistics and Supply Chain Systems, 193–200. WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814329866_0009.
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Akhavan, Mina. "Gateway." In The New Arab Urban, 175–93. NYU Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479880010.003.0008.
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Dubai has evolved from fishing village into a transportation and logistics world hub with the largest man-made harbor in the world. From the Dubai base, DP World – as the overall operating company is now known – encompasses a total of 77 marine and inland terminals across the world. As a global operator, DP World now is third in world ranking for container throughput. Under the Dubai regimen, ports push inland to organize or reorganize urban territory at increasingly distant locations, utilizing rail, highway, and air facilities for intermodal logistics systems. The deliberate instituting of multi-modality thus goes beyond the limited physical infrastructure of what is needed for shipping per se and includes free trade zones and other distinctive governance arrangements. Hardware and software aligns to coordinate across global sites. DP World represents success in fostering UAE diversification away from oil and gas and reaching far beyond its borders.
Conference papers on the topic "Intermodal Rail Terminals"
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Ricci, Stefano. "Analytical methods and simulation models to assess innovative operational measures and technologies for rail port terminals: the case of Valencia Principe Felipe terminal." In CIT2016. Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/cit2016.2016.3398.
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The topic of freight transport by rail is a complex theme and, in recent years, a main issue of European policy. The legislation evolution and the White Paper 2011 have demonstrated the European intention to re-launch this sector. The challenge is to promote the intermodal transport system to the detriment of road freight transport. In this context intermodal freight terminals, play a primary role for the supply chain, they are the connection point between the various transport nodes and the nodal points where the freight are handled, stored and transferred between different modes to final customer. To achieve the purpose, it is strengthen the improvement of existing intermodal freight terminals and the development of innovative intermodal freight terminals towards higher performance (ERRAC, 2012). Many terminal performances improvements have been proposed and sometime experimented. They are normally basing on combinations of operational measures and innovative technologies (e.g. automatic horizontal and parallel storage and handling, automated gate and sensors for tracking systems data exchange) tested in various terminals, with often-contradictory results. The research work described in this paper (developed within the Capacity4Rail EU project) focusses on the assessment of effects that these innovations can have in the intermodal freight terminals combined in various alternative consistent effective scenarios. The methodological framework setup to assess these innovations is basing on a combination of analytical methods based on sequential algorithms and discrete events simulation models. The output of this assessment method are key performance indicators (KPIs) selected according to terminals typologies and related to different aspects (e.g. management, operation and organization). The present paper illustrates the application of the methodological framework, tuned on the operation of various intermodal terminals, for the validation on today operation and the assessment of possible future scenarios to the case study of the Principe Felipe sea-rail terminal in Valencia.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIT2016.2016.3406
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Dotoli, Mariagrazia, Nicola Epicoco, Marco Falagario, Carla Seatzu, and Biagio Turchiano. "Optimization of intermodal rail-road freight transport terminals." In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icra.2014.6907120.
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Martinov, Svetoslav. "Evaluation model of railway infrastructure potential for establishment of freight intermodal terminals." In Fifth International Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructure. University of Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5592/co/cetra.2018.907.
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Jiang, Ge-Feng, Guang-Bin Cui, Yi-Jun Li, and Wen-Guo Ai. "Study on the Location of the Rail/Road Intermodal Terminals under Fuzzy." In 2008 4th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM). IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/wicom.2008.1638.
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Dotoli, Mariagrazia, Nicola Epicoco, and Carla Seatzu. "An improved technique for train load planning at intermodal rail-road terminals." In 2015 IEEE 20th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/etfa.2015.7301580.
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Wang, Naiyu, Mengru Shen, and Yongcun Wei. "Research on Handling Equipment Allocation of Rail-Sea Intermodal Transportation in Container Terminals." In 2020 IEEE 5th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering (ICITE). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icite50838.2020.9231381.
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Dick, C. Tyler, and Jeremiah R. Dirnberger. "Advancing the Science of Yard Design and Operations With the CSX Hump Yard Simulation System." In 2014 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2014-3841.
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The Class 1 railroads in North America have made substantial investments in mainline and intermodal terminal capacity during the past two decades to meet growing traffic demand. Investments to increase hump classification yard capacity have been less frequent, with a handful of yard projects in the late 1990s and the last major round of new hump yards constructed in the late 1970s. At this time of large investment in yards, much basic research was conducted on hump yard design and performance, while more recent studies have looked at applying lean process improvement and block optimization to hump yards. Due to the complexity of the problem, these studies tend to focus on one aspect of the terminal capacity question at a time, leaving the industry without a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental interrelationships between all aspects of hump yard performance in terms of volume, utilization and reliability. Without such an understanding, the industry cannot make fully informed decisions regarding the hump yard capacity investments that are now the subject of renewed interest due to the combination of carload market shifts, traffic growth facilitated by mainline capacity investment, and aging congested yard infrastructure. To address this need, CSX Transportation developed its Hump Yard Simulation System (HYSS). HYSS considers the operations, process and infrastructure parameters of a hump yard, and their interactions, in a single simulation to evaluate terminal performance. In the HYSS graphical environment, users can evaluate any combination of changes to terminal operating plans, yard processes and infrastructure layout. While developed to address specific business needs, as a simulation tool, HYSS has the potential to investigate the fundamental relationships governing hump yard operations in a manner not possible before. To realize this potential, CSX is partnering with the Rail Transportation and Engineering Center (RailTEC) at the University of Illinois to deploy HYSS in an academic research environment. Design of experiments techniques will be used to conduct a series of HYSS simulations to quantify the interaction between hump yard throughput, number of blocks and the delivered level of service at the terminal, and the sensitivity of this relationship to other operational and infrastructure variables. This paper will introduce HYSS as a research tool, examine how its various outputs are used to quantify terminal performance, and describe the planned research program aimed at advancing the science of hump yard design and operations.
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Buca, Rafał, and Oskar Mitrosz. "Complex Geotechnical Engineering for Port of Gdansk Development – Gateway to Central-Eastern Europe." In The 13th Baltic Sea Region Geotechnical Conference. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/13bsgc.2016.044.
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Port of Gdansk development strategy 2027 is to become leading European hub in the Baltic Sea and assumes i.a. improvement of inland road and rail accessibility, increase of the port capacity for container throughput and intermodal transport, increase port’s throughput capacity for goods other than containerized cargo. The paper presents several complex geotechnical design & build tasks that have already been done for port’s infrastructure and superstructure development and extension i.a. road tunnel under Vistula river linking port with city industrial area or Deepwater Container Terminal Gdansk with a new berth and container stacking yards. The paper discusses multiple geotechnical challenges and alternative soil treatment methods. The authors share conclussions and recommendations of successful application of various ground improvement technologies.