Professor Afshin Mansouri from Brunel University delivered an online seminar for The OR Society on Wednesday June 30th, 2021 on the research work in the PortForward project with the title »Green scheduling of container terminals: A fresh approach to enhance the sustainability of maritime shipping«.
The online seminar provides an overview of a research journey centred on the novel concept of ‘Green Scheduling’, starting from basic research and proof of concept to prototyping and field experiments in maritime shipping as part of the EU-funded PortForward project. This initiative aims to develop an innovative decision-support tool, called the Green Yard Scheduler (GYS), to enhance the performance and sustainability of container terminals.
Professor Afshin introduced three inter-related optimisation problems regarding housekeeping, container positioning and yard crane scheduling, each with a combination of performance and sustainability-oriented objectives.
Please find more information on the website of The OR Society.
You can download Professor Mansouri’s presentation slides here:
Green scheduling of container terminals: A fresh approach to enhance the sustainability of maritime shipping Part1
Green scheduling of container terminals: A fresh approach to enhance the sustainability of maritime shipping Part2
