A SIMULATION MODEL FOR INTEGRATING QUAY TRANSPORT AND STACKING POLICIES ON AUTOMATED CONTAINER TERMINALS

In order to accommodate the growth in intercontinental container transport, port facilities have to be up-scaled drastically. One of the major challenges is to double the capacity of the marine operation on a container terminal. In this study the model of a quay transport system using automated guided vehicles (AGVs) is integrated with a detailed model of the container stack. The result is a gener…