Disruption management for truck appointment system at a container terminal A green initiative 集装箱码头卡车预约系统的中断管理：绿色倡议.pdfVIP

Transportation Research Part D 61 (2018) 261–273 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Transportation Research Part D journal homepage: /locate/trd Disruption management for truck appointment system at a container terminal: A green initiative Na Li a, Gang Chen b, Kannan Govindan c,⇑, Zhihong Jin a a Transportation Management College, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning, China b Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark c Centre for Sustainable Engineering Operations Management, Department of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Disruption often occurs in both land-side and sea-side operations at a container terminal, Received 30 June 2015 causing substantial interference of scheduled operations and poor green performance. The Revised 26 December 2015 land-side disruption is rarely researched, and this paper addresses the ordinary level of Accepted 27 December 2015 such disruption where typically some truck arrivals deviate from their schedule in the Available online 27 January 2016 appointment system. The aim is to find a response strategy that can maintain high resili- ence ability of the system in neutralizing the impact of disruptions. First, we consider dif- Keywords: ferent levels of late or early arrivals, as wel