Quay crane scheduling in automated container terminal for the trade-off between operation efficiency and energy consumption

At present, the automation of handling equipment has changed the operation mode in the automated container terminal. This paper investigates the automated quay crane scheduling problem (AQCSP) for the automated container terminal. The operation process of AQCSP is decomposed, and formulated it as a mixed integrated programming model. In the numerical experiments, the relation between operation efficiency and energy consumption has been quantitative analyzed by case study. Moreover, the sensitivity analysis of the ratios for all tasks in a vessel bay and the tasks in each stack are also presented. The findings of this study will provide a theoretical reference for the study on the trade-off operation efficiency and energy consumption on the operational level.