Research On Yard Slots Scheduling In Automobile Ro-Ro Terminal

The automobile terminal serves as hub for transshipment of automobile from ship to other mode of transportation. To cope with increasing traffic demands and decreasing profit margins the automobile needs to improve the slots allocation, to reduce operation costs, thereby to increase the efficiency of automobile operational logistics.As the main part of the automobile terminal, terminal yard is a area for storing automobiles, which plays a very important role in the automobile logistics.This paper mainly studied the problem about the manner of making terminal yard plan in automobile terminal system. This system consisted of M vessels, N automobile manufactories and a automobile terminal. This distributed system: automobile manufactories request the terminal to allow the batch of automobiles to arrive terminal; if terminal allow this request, the automobile manufactories transport this batch to terminal;this batch of automobiles briefly stores in the yard, then are loaded in vessel to leave this terminal. Comparing former researches in this field, this paper has following feathers:(1) On the base of now manner of making plan, the new manner will meet the reality demand well.(2) This model research based on MAS and heuristic algorithms offered a new approach to solve the making plan problem.(3) This distributed system laid a solid foundation for studying other part of this model.(4) Simulation based on Anylogic supported our theory model very well.