Optimum Number and Capacity of Seaport Berths

Container terminal gate appointment system optimization

“…According to the characteristics of the MCT gate system and the findings of several studies on waiting time issues at freight terminals, (Noritake and Kimura, 1983;Noritake, 1985;Kozan, 1997aKozan, , 1997bKozan, , 2000Taniguchi et al, 1999;Yamade et al, 2003;Dragovic et al, 2006) two multi-server models can be used. If truck inter-arrival times and service times follow an exponential distribution, the M/M/S model is applicable, given in equation (1).…”

A relationship between different costs of container yard modelling in port using queuing approach

“…In particular, this concerns the problem of determination and minimization of the so-called the specific cost ratio which is rarely investigated in the literature. Namely, under some given constraints, the determination of specific cost ratio and the optimal numbers of berths in a port in the sense of minimization of related specific cost ratio for certain single arrival and bulk arrival queueing systems were studied by several authors in [18][19][20], [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. By considering the total annual cost for queuing systems with c yard cranes, in [27] (also see [28]) it was established the following equality: …”

“…Dynamic system performance evaluation in the port utilizing queuing models with batch arrivals was studied by Dragović et al in [13] (for similar topics, see [14][15][16][17]). Furthermore, the total cost for different port systems was extensively studied in literature in the last fifteen years ( [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]) (for earlier related study, see [29] and [30]). …”

An Analysis of the Dynamics of Ownership, Capacity Investments and Pricing Structure of Ports

“…Most previous studies have focused on single ports and have not explicitly considered inter-port competition and ownership. Jansson and Shneerson (1982) and Noritake and Kimura (1983) used queuing theory to model the choice of berths within a port. Devanney and Tan (1975) used dynamic programming to analyse optimal pricing and capacity investment timing.…”