Intelligent Freight Transportation

Series:
Automation and Control Engineering
Published:
March 24, 2008 by CRC Press - 344 Pages
Author(s):
Petros A. Ioannou, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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ISBN 9780849307706
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Features

  • Provides material on advanced technologies for container processing
  • Covers fully automated containers and explains cost and performance analysis
  • Discusses ports and container terminals, how they interact with surface transportation, and related security issues
  • Delineates new strategies for empty container reuse, truck routing, and dispatching to meet time constraints for service
  • Explores topics such as container terminals of the future, advanced processing technologies, and the gate appointment system
  • Includes near-term approaches promoted by practitioners and industry and longer-term ones considered by academia
  • Analyzes labor union issues from the point of view of a labor union activist and academic
  • Examines environmental issues associated with ports, ships and the logistics chain

    • Summary

    Increasing capacity at ports and goods movement in the supply chain in general, while also satisfying environmental, economic, political, labor union, and other constraints is, arguably, the greatest challenge of modern transportation. With space at a premium and costs through the roof, it is increasingly obvious that the traditional solutions are not feasible in the short- or even medium-term. However, advances in information technology, telecommunications, data management, and computation tools, coupled with recent research in systems optimization and control, may provide promising new approaches.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction to Intelligent Freight Transportation, P, Ioannou
    Automated Container Terminal Concepts, P. Ioannou and H. Jula
    Automated Container Terminals: Lessons Learned for Future Successes, E. Dougherty
    Operational Issues in Modern Container Terminals, K.H. Kim
    Models for Cross-Border Land Transportation of Ocean Containers, R.K. Cheung
    Container Port Choice and Container Port Performance Criteria: A Case Study on the Ceres Paragon Terminal in Amsterdam, R. Kroon and I.F.A.. Vis
    Inland Ports: Current Operations and Future Trends, E. Savacool
    Inland Terminal Concepts, A. Ballis
    Maglev Freight Conveyor Systems, K.A. James
    Container Movements with Time Windows, H. Jula
    Intermodal Drayage Routing and Scheduling, A.L. Erera and K.R. Smilowitz
    Crane Double Cycling in Container Ports, A. Goodchild and C. Daganzo
    Empty Container Reuse, H. Jula, H. Chang, A. Chassiakos, and P. Ioannou
    Port Labor: The Effects of Competition, Devolution, Labor Reform,
    Trade, and Technology, K. Monaco, C. Ann Mulcahy, and L. Helfman
    Intelligent Freight Technologies: A Longshore Perspective, D. Miretti
    Environmental Management of the Logistic Chain: Concepts and Perspectives, A. Michail and C.F. Wooldridge
    Green Ports and Green Ships, C.F. Wooldridge, T.H. Wakeman, and S. Theofanis
    Index

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