At container terminals, containers are transported from the marshalling yard to the quay and vice versa by Container Trucks (CTs). This study discusses how to dispatch CTs by utilizing information about pickup and delivery locations and time in future delivery tasks based on dynamic dispatching strategy in which multiple tasks are matched with multiple CTs. In this paper, Multi-agent system (MAS) is used as the basis for an intelligent dispatch system. Relationship between transport tasks and service of CTS has been taken as a contract net using the fuzzy set theory and method. Considering the load of communication and consultation efficiency in system, the bidirectional negotiation mechanism is adopted. The dispatching model based on Contract Network Protocol (CNP) using bidirectional negotiation is provided for assigning optimal delivery tasks to CTs and fuzzy reasoning process of dispatching decisions is suggested. The method has both virtues of precision of static planning and flexibility of CNP and has been confirmed by cases.


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    Title :

    A Dispatching Method for Trucks at Container Terminal by Using Fuzzy-CNP Concept


    Contributors:
    Meng Yu, (author) / Shaomei Wang, (author) / Yun Cai, (author)


    Publication date :

    2010-11-01


    Size :

    288149 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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