Optimization Approach for Yard Crane Scheduling Problem with Uncertain Parameters in Container Terminals

Table 1

Comparison of research on similar yard crane scheduling problem.

Literature	Subject	Outcome	Uncertainties				Approach
			Arrival time of trucks	Speed of trucks	Handling volume of yard cranes	Speed of yard cranes
He et al. [28]	Multiple yard cranes	Readjusted scheme	√		√		Three-stage GA-based algorithm
Zhou et al. [1]	Multiple yard cranes	Readjusted scheme	√				Genetic algorithm
Zheng et al. [29]	Single yard crane	Fixed scheme	√				Simulated annealing algorithm, genetic algorithm
Lu [30]	Automated yard cranes	Fixed scheme		√		√	Particle swarm algorithm
This paper	Multiple yard cranes	Fixed scheme	√		√		Rule-based heuristic algorithm, tailored GA