Froyland, GaryKoch, ThorstenMegow, NicoleDuane, EmilyWren, Howard2021-12-172021-12-1720062197-8085https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/15581http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-14354This paper concerns the problem of operating a landside container exchange area that is serviced by multiple semi-automated rail mounted gantry cranes (RMGs) that are moving on a single bi-directional traveling lane. Such a facility is built by Patrick Corporation at the Port Botany terminal in Sydney. The gantry cranes are a scarce resource and handle the bulk of container movements. Thus, they require a sophisticated analysis to achieve near optimal utilization. We present a three stage algorithm to manage the container exchange facility, including the scheduling of cranes, the control of associated short-term container stacking, and the allocation of delivery locations for trucks and other container transporters. The key components of our approach are a time scale decomposition, whereby an integer program controls decisions across a long time horizon to produce a balanced plan that is fed to a series of short time scale online subproblems, and a highly efficient space-time divisioning of short term storage areas.en510 Mathematikcontainer terminalyard crane schedulingstorage space allocationinteger programmingResearch Paper