Open AccessAlleviation of drayage truck-entry points congestion in container terminals: a review
Author(s) -
Victor Ikechi Ihebom,
Rowland J. O. Ekeocha,
O.S.I. Fayomi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1378/2/022080
Subject(s) - truck , container (type theory) , transport engineering , expediting , port (circuit theory) , yard , engineering , operations management , business , automotive engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , electrical engineering , systems engineering , quantum mechanics
The yardstick for deciding the limit of port is focused by three principal infrastructural assets to be specific, compartments, yards and entryways. An assortment of intrigue has been paid to enhancing billet and yard limits, presently not bounty consideration has been given to examining the entry points potential. The entryway framework is an associating hub between the landside and coastline activities in an ocean to-town esteem chain. The entry points framework requires consideration as put in Asian city, is a multi-polish parallel lining model with non-homogeneous Poisson entries. The point of this survey paper is to break down the impact of truck-entryway gridlock and conceivable practice received in easing this looming issue at a few terminals throughout the years. The characterizations for lessening drayage truck-entryway blockage at container terminal were effect of truck appointment system (TAS), reduction of system operational cost, increase of nodal productivity, decrease of truck emissions and minimization of truck turnaround time (TTT).