Inland Waterway Efficiency Through Skipper Collaboration and Joint Speed Optimization

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Optimizing fuel consumption on inland waterway networks: Local search heuristic for lock scheduling

“…To our best knowledge, only [5,6,13] minimise overall greenhouse gas emissions by optimising the speed at which vessels approach the locks. In [6] the problem is modeled in a game theoretic setting. The optimisation of speeds under uncertainty has been addressed in [5] .…”

Hiking in the scheduling landscape

“…Passchyn et al [126] introduce a mathematical programming formulation of the lock scheduling problem with the goal to minimize total emissions and investigate the trade-off between emissions and travel times. Defryn et al [43] view the problem from a game-theoretic point-of-view where each vessel chooses its individual velocity and arrival time at the lock and the goal is to minimize total fuel consumption.…”