Etsuko Nishimura
Associate Professor
Kobe University

Kutsuna, Aomi
Student
Kobe University

Wei, Zhujun
Student
Kobe University

A heuristic approach for operating the marine container drayage using dummy node concept



CO2 occupies over 90% of artificially emitted the Greenhouse Gas. As related to CO2 emitted by road traffic, we focus on “Round use of containers” project which is promoted in Japan. To be concrete, inbound/outbound container movements are combined with empty containers’ movement at the inland depot, in order to reduce the throughput of empty containers in an internal area.
We focus on a vehicle routing for container transport on this project.
We express the change of situation at one customer as two different points: a full container delivery to an empty container supply at a consignee, an empty container demand to a full container pickup at a shipper.
Therefore, we propose the heuristic approach based on Ant Colony Optimization for the vehicle dispatch problem using dummy nodes expressed two situations at one customer.

Host city and venue - Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria, and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primate city, with a population of about 1.9 million (2.6 million within the metropolitan area, nearly one third of Austria's population), and its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 7th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union.  Read more...

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