Deciding on planning windows by partitioning time for yard crane management in container terminals

Abstract

This paper proposes a new dynamic Yard Crane (YC) workload partition

scheme in container terminals. The main contribution is the time partitioning

algorithm which finds a sequence of time windows to match closely the changing

workload distribution and get the maximum benefit of the space partition algorithm.

Experimental results show that the proposed time partition algorithm plays the most

important role in making substantial improvements over basic partition scheme in all

tested workload scenarios.