New Algorithm for Fast Processing RFID System in Container Terminal

The major characteristics of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) are an enterprise-wide system that covers all the business functions and information resources, integrated database, built-in best industry practice, packaged software and open architecture. ERP enables reduction of system development time, flexibility, standardization of workflow and effective business planning capability. ERP is mainly for the manufacturing industry. However, the principles of ERP can also be applied to container terminal operating systems. This paper presents an ERP system approach for a container terminal. It has clustered the workflow of a container terminal and analysed the business process to generate the best workflows. The integrated database is designed to eliminate redundancy and keep integration. The core of ERP for container terminal is the planning facility such as berth planning and yard planning. The planning capability is very tightly coupled with data flow from client entities such as shipping companies. The ERP can handle the existing problems of container terminal operation that are mainly caused by lack of integration of a whole information resource in a container terminal, ad-hoc and poor planning capability, disconnected and incorrect data from client companies. The ERP approach can not only resolve the problems of container terminals but also promote adoption of information systems for container terminals in the world that have not yet implemented terminal operating systems.

Improving operation efficiency of container terminal, is important for terminal operators. Meanwhile, the air pollution problem is increasingly serious in container terminal, with the establishment of the Emission Control Areas (ECAs) of China in 2015, environmental protection pressure is increasing to terminal operators. In order to comply with the ECA regulation, optimizing the operation efficiency, reducing air pollution emissions, which, is an urgent problem to terminal management in China. This paper based on the characteristic of Container Terminal Operation System (CTOS), including berth allocation problem, truck dispatching problem, and yard allocation problem, establishes the architecture of CTOS based on the Multi Agents System. A model and simulation on a port container terminal is built on the JADE platform to support the decision-making of container terminal, which can reduce air pollution emissions in port, and maintain service levels. CTOS allows the container terminal operator to be more flexible in their decision to meet the ECA regulation.

With the continuous development of smart ports, the construction of port information systems has become the construction focus of the future development of such ports. However, the existing performance evaluation system for port information systems represents a research gap. It cannot effectively achieve specific improvement in the construction of information systems for port services and capabilities. In this paper, an evaluation index system was forged from the three perspectives of the operating level, management capability, and economic efficiency. As a first step, starting from the current situation of Beibu Gulf Port (Port B) construction, the three dimensions of the evaluation index system were determined using the scheme of literature review, questionnaire research, and fieldwork. Additionally, through adversarial interpretive structural modeling (AISM), it is concluded that the port loading and unloading operation capability and service level are the fundamental factors for measuring the construction performance of the container terminal operation system (CTOS). The results are used as input to construct an analytic network process (ANP) model to obtain the index weights. Finally, the gray clustering method (GCM) is introduced to construct a quantitative evaluation model to quantitatively evaluate the construction performance of the Port B CTOS. The quantitative benefits brought by the construction of the CTOS are finally verified. The scores of the corresponding dimensions of the port before and after the construction of the CTOS system in Beibu Gulf Port are obtained experimentally. The conclusion shows that the construction of CTOS makes the port operating level module improve the most, from 40.023 to 70.733 points; at the same time, it is found that two aspects, i.e., green security and economic benefits, in current construction are directions requiring further work in future port construction. Finally, a visualized quantitative analysis and evaluation method for the performance of smart port construction is proposed.

A proactive approach for simultaneous berth and quay crane scheduling problem with stochastic arrival and handling time

With the rapid development of container transport industry, container terminal systems have become more and more busy. Some measures and facilities are taken to improve the container throughput, such as Mega Ship, Mega Crane, Deep water Port, Automatic Container Terminal, Mobile Port, Dock Type Berth and Floating Berth. This paper deals with the transshipment transport problem in a container terminal arising from the usage of Mega Ship. We introduce the Berth Allocation Planning problem considering transshipment of ship to ship and formulate a mathematical model with different number of Quay Cranes in berth. A hybrid multistage operation-based Genetic Algorithm (h-moGA) with a priority-based encoding method is proposed. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed h-moGA approach, numerical experiments are carried out and the best solution to the problem is obtained.

This paper addresses topics concerning the development of future Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) so that they can operate safely within the community of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Studies by the Defense Science Board; the Office of Science and Technology; Government Accountability Office; and the Congressional Research Service: Library of Congress; have all emphasized that soon there will be a significant number of UAVs operating sideby- side with manned civil aircraft in the FAA’s National Airspace System (NAS). It is anticipated that future UAVs will start to perform many of the dull, dirty, and dangerous civilian missions. In 2006, about 600 UAVs are expected to be manufactured in the US alone. Therefore, there is an urgent need for developers of UAVs to understand safety certification for operations in the NAS, and that safety certification starts with the safety requirements; safety design; safe development process; safety verification; and safe operating procedures in the planned operational environment. This paper presents and discusses the experiences and lessons gained by the authors on the development of end-toend aviation safety; from the safety requirements to their final safety certification in the planned operational environment. The authors’ previous and ongoing works include the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) systems such as the GPS; WAAS; LAAS; MSAS; GPS III; and different operational environments at different airports such as Incheon International Airport. The FAA started with the two traditional safety certifications processes: airborne system certification and ground system certification; governed mostly by Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) and FAA’s Acquisition Management System (AMS), respectively. However, when FAA started to implement GNSS, the lines between airborne and ground systems became blurred, and as a result many current Communications, Navigation, Surveillance, and Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) systems have to follow both processes. We will also discuss the current Safety Management Systems being developed by both FAA and ICAO as an integrated, systematic, and harmonized approach and process to sort out the differing safety requirements from FAA, SAE-ARP, MIL-STD, RTCA, ASTM, ICAO, etc. to provide the eventual safe operations within the NAS. The discussion will then focus on the real world of institutional, operational, and technical issues for safety certification worldwide. Despite the numerous standards and guidance documents, many past safety analyses and studies were guided by best practices that had been used successfully in the past to streamline the process of providing all the required documentations and verifications. One such area is in the use of the “Integrity Panel of Experts” that had been used successful in the implementation of safety for the FAA’s Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) and Local Area Augmentation System (LAAS) programs. In many areas of the world, safety certification from a technical point of view is only the first step to achieving safety certification to fly in their national and sovereign airspace. Finally, we will show the first steps that UAV manufactures need to consider if they want their UAVs to be approved to fly safely in different national civilian airspace.

Design of MSP430F249-based Toxic Gas Measure Terminal and Alarm Management System

The primary objective of this Technical Note is to provide guidance to utility companies either for improving the operations-phase implementation of a current environmental management system or for developing a system. The guidelines presented herein provide the approach, content and implementation protocols for developing a completed operations component of the Environmental Management System (EMS) (i.e., the Operations and Environmental Quality Management System, or "OEMS").

In the process of power dispatching and control, dispatching small network is an effective means to realize the remote number allocation in power dispatching and switching network. However, due to the scattered site, a wide range, and some unmanned site remote locations, there is a need for a small site terminal equipment to find the fault. To solve these problems, a terminal graphics management system is established. First, the real-time status monitoring mechanism of terminal is established based on IPoE technology to realize the status awareness of remote terminal. The heartbeat mechanism is segmented in link layer to meet the real-time performance of terminal state presentation. Then, the message class method with special characters is used to replace the original dial method to test the detection mode of manual answering. Automatic monitoring using telemetry technology can effectively monitor in unattended situations. Finally, considering the performance of different devices and various fault scenarios, according to the inherent hardware characteristics of segmented devices, the unified packet detection technology is used to realize the fault diagnosis of network sub-nodes, and finally realize the fault diagnosis of the terminal. After experimental verification and testing, the platform can realize remote fault detection and management of each plant terminal through topological graphical management system. The system can improve the scale and management ability of intelligent power dispatching of small stations.

In the era of wireless communications, Beyond the 3rd Generation (B3G), a network operator (NO) should satisfy numerous requirements, namely, personalisation, context awareness, always best connectivity, ubiquitous service provision and seamless mobility. A NO can efficiently satisfy the requirements by relying on the different radio networks of its heterogeneous infrastructure, and potentially on other cooperating networks. In this respect, the NO should possess advanced management mechanisms for driving its users to the most appropriate networks that satisfy the requirements. The presentation of such a management system is the specific contribution of this paper. The system is called Reconfigurable Terminal Management System (RTMS). In general, it provides the means for profile modelling, the acquisition of monitoring/discovery/context information, and the negotiation and selection of configurations, based on information deriving from policies, as well as the profiles and the context. Our work focuses on the role and the information of the components of the RTMS. Concrete functionality for accomplishing the role is also presented. Nevertheless, the system is open to the integration of alternate functionality. Our discussion includes a business case that presents in high-level terms the role of the management system, a detailed description of the components of the management system and results that show the efficiency of the management schemes. A summary and further research challenges, conclude this article.

In order to build up a quick and unified nationwide earthquake disaster management system in the event of an earthquake disaster, it is necessary to analyze the current state of earthquakes in South Korea and find the problems of the current disaster management system through earthquake cases. The purpose of this study is to investigate the basic concepts of earthquake and disaster management, largely focusing on the Gyeongju earthquake of September 12, 2017 and the Pohang Earthquake of November 15, 2017, and to suggest by comparing and analyzing the research data and previous studies which are describing the need for improvement of current diasaster management system and what its problems are.

As a matter of fact, the performance evaluation of most current hospital medical staffs turns to be broad and vague frequently. It becomes much more difficult to reflect the actual working situation of employees accurately by lacking of factual data, objectivity and rationality. What the goal of research of this article is to develop a performance management system based on BSC, in order to collect the pivotal performance indicators automatically from the current hospital business management systems and HIS systems, which in turn lead to an automated and objective evaluation system by transferring those indicators into quantitative evaluation values according to required rules. As a case study on HangZhou First People's Hospital, it proposed the concept of system model and functional component by means of researching performance evaluation through approches such as AHP and Delphi poll. It could get good result after finishing system program compilation implementing system with C# code based on. Net framework and passing the tests through a serial of such researching activities as performance assessment criteria analysis, data acquisition analysis, design of processing flow and database design.

In this paper we propose a dynamic multi automated guided vehicle (AGV) scheduling method based on the scheduling properties of automated container terminal handling systems. In multi-AGV scheduling, the composition of AGV handling time and the precedence order of certain tasks are major constraints. Taking these into consideration, we design a genetic algorithm (GA) for a dynamic multi-AGV scheduling model to minimize completion time and standard deviation of handling time of quay cranes (QC), and validated the proposed model through numerical experiment. We expect this model to be significant for multi-agent scheduling of discrete production systems.

Huang, X.-L.; Dai, X.-M.; Luo, Y.-Z., and Wang, Y.-W., 2019. Design of container terminal handling system based on index forecast and economic evaluation. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 377–384. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.The construction of a container terminal is a large and long-period investment, and its planning and design involve many factors such as technology, economy and social environment. At the same time, the handling system of a container terminal is a complex discrete dynamic system. Therefore, the design of a container terminal is a complex process requiring repeated modification from proposing alternative schemes to evaluating and optimizing schemes. Modelling and simulation technology can realize the evaluation of various schemes and the determination of the optimal scheme without real operation. Therefore, in order to design the handling system of a container terminal systematically and scientifically to reduce cost and risk, this paper first proposes a comprehensive forecast model to forecast the throughput of a container terminal, and puts forward two handling technology schemes. And then, configuration model of key machinery resources is constructed, and detailed schemes are obtained through simulation experiments with the actual data of container terminal A. Finally, economic evaluation is carried out to examine the financial feasibility and economic rationality of the schemes.

Queuing problems present a gap in the availability of knowledge at port container terminals. This study is focused on various types of services for port container terminal queuing system. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a methodology to decrease waiting time without any reduction in productivity. A new approach for servicing at the queue is proposed, and with this idea waiting time will be reduced without any change in productivity or additional cost. To execute this approach in a port container terminal, berthing areas of the port are simulated with ARENA 13.5, and this new approach is implemented in the model. The result of this change are compared with results of a port container terminal as case study. With implementing this method the waiting time is reduced dramatically and productivity increased slowly.