Container Terminals and Automated Transport Systems

Logistics control issues of container terminals and automated transportation systems.- Container terminal operation and operations research - a classification and literature review.- Comparison of vehicle types at an automated container terminal.- Simulation-based performance evaluation of transport vehicles at automated container terminals.- Generating scenarios for simulation and optimization of container terminal logistics.- Fleet sizing and vehicle routing for container transportation in a static environment.- The berth allocation problem.- A scheduling method for berth and quay cranes.- A beam search algorithm for the load sequencing of outbound containers in port container terminals.- A general framework for scheduling equipment and manpower at container terminals.- Dispatching multi-load AGVs in highly automated sea port container terminals.- Scheduling vehicles in automated transportation systems - Algorithms and case study.- Modeling of capacitated transportation systems for integral scheduling.- Modeling and optimization of the intermodal terminal Mega Hub.- A dispatching method for automated guided vehicles by using a bidding concept.- Scheduling railway traffic at a construction site.- A bottleneck assignment approach to the multiple container loading problem.

Hans-Otto-Günther, geb. 1948 in Gelsenkirchen, ist nach Lehrstuhlvertretungen an den Universitäten Bonn und Bayreuth und einer Professur an der Universität Wien seit 1993 Inhaber eines Lehrstuhls für Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Produktionsmanagement an der Technischen Universität Berlin. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind die Anwendung quantitativer Methoden in Produktion und Logistik sowie die computergestützte Planung in Supply Chain Networks.