Agent-Based Container Terminal Optimisation

Container terminals play a critical role in international shipping and are under pressure to cope with increasing container traffic. The problem of managing container terminals effectively has a number of characteristics that suggest the use of agent technology would be beneficial. This paper describes a joint industry-university project which has explored the applicability of agent technology to the domain of container terminal management.

Authors

• Stephen Cranefield
• Roger Jarquin
• Guannan Li
• Brent Martin
• Rainer Unland
• Hanno-Felix Wagner
• Michael Winikoff
• Thomas Young

Keywords

• Container Terminal Management
• Container Terminal Optimisation
• Logistics