Almost ever since freight has been transported via rail, shunting yards (also called
classification or marshaling yards) are operated in order to separate freight trains and …

In spite of extraordinary support programs initiated by the European Union and other
national authorities, the percentage of overall freight traffic moved by train is in steady …

Scheduling problems can be understood in general as the problems of allocating resources
over time to perform a set of tasks being parts of some processes, among which …

As a traditional way for transporting containerized cargoes, international liner shipping has
long played a dominant role in the China-Europe freight transportation market. In recent …

This paper tackles the sea-rail transshipment operation problem of seaport rail terminals,
which includes two key sub-problems involved in sea-rail intermodal container …

At rail–road transshipment yards, gantry cranes move containers from freight trains to trucks
and vice versa. They constitute important entities in today's intermodal transportation …

This paper investigates the transshipment operations between vessels and trains in seaport
rail terminals. In order to get a more effective transshipment plan, the schedule plan of trains …

Modern rail-road container terminals serve as important consolidation nodes in intermodal
transportation networks where containers are transferred between freight trains and trucks …

To enable rapid container transshipment between freight trains in modern rail–rail
transshipment yards efficient computerized scheduling procedures are indispensable. This …

We consider single-crane scheduling at rail transshipment yards, in which gantry cranes
move containers between trains, trucks and a storage area. The single-crane scheduling …