Study on Decision Support System for Container Allocation Problem

• Main Authors: Shih-Liang Chao, 趙時樑
• Other Authors: Chuen-Yih Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1994
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26286131047967066099

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 交通管理(科學)學系 === 82 === Container transportation currently plays a key role in freight transportation. The major reasen is that container is suitable for intermodel transportation. It is widely accepted by shippers and carriers. Therefore, how to provide empty containers for shippers efficiently has become an important issue to carriers. The above issue which time aspect is taken into account can be formulated as a dynamic container allocation (DCA) model by making use of Dynamic Network. However, the DCA model is usually a large-scale model when more ports, lines, and container types are involved. To release the burden of formulating the large- scale model and editing, displaying corresponding data, this research makes an attempt to develop a decision support system (DSS) for the DCA model. The core of the DSS, the DCA model, takes container size (20''/40''), ownership (owned/ leased), turn-around time and liner schedule into consideration. Furthermore, a Geographic Information System, TransCAD, is selected as the operating environment of the DSS. This operating environment can be served as the integration of the DCA model and the corresponding database, and the friendly interface among users, model-solving procedures, and graphics-displaying procedures. The contributions of this research are as follows : 1. Formulating a DCA model for a near sea shipping liner service. 2. Developing a prototype DSS to processing the model-solving procedure and displaying results in graphics mode.