The Stability of Container Liner Schedules集装箱班轮运输调度的稳定性.pptVIP

Speed and Schedule Stabilityin Supply Chains Michael G H Bell Professor of Transport Operations Imperial College London PORTeC members Civil and Environmental Engineering: Prof. Mike Bell Prof. Andrew Evans Prof. John Polak Prof. Robert Cochrane Dr. Sheila Farrell Khalid Bichou Panagiotis Angeloudis Gianluca Barletta Konstantinos Zavitsas Tanaka Business School: Dr Elaine Hadjiconstantinou Nang Laik Security and port efficiency (Khalid Bichou) Changing security regimes after 9/11 IDEF process mapping of security measures Panel data for port inputs and outputs DEA and not SFA efficiency analysis Robust AGV Scheduling(Panagiotis Angeloudis) Robust optimisation of assignment of jobs to AGVs Simulation of an automated container terminal Managing supply chain uncertainty(Gianluca Barletta) Sources of uncertainty Technological solutions (for example, RFID) Organisational structures and information flows Optimisation of transport and stacking in yards (Nang Laik) MIP formulation of movement and stacking problem Exact and heuristic solutions Global energy supply security(Konstantinos Zavitsas) Construction of a global network model for shipping Application to oil and gas Analysis of security Contents Background Stability at a single terminal Stability for two terminals Stability for N terminals Stochastic stability Conclusions Inventory in the supply chain Bus bunching Newell and Potts (1964) model: Applied to study bus service reliability Passengers arrive more-or-less continuously but depart in batches when a bus arrives Stability requires that passengers board at a rate that is more than twice the rate at which they arrive Instability leads to bus bunching, longer queues and longer waits Container terminals Arrival and departure headways ? = Ratio of arrival to loading rate of containers h = Arrival headway of vessels (assumed to be uniform) =nth departure headway (arrival headway at the next port of call) (1) (2) , assuming