Vehicle Dispatch Problem with Chassis Pool Use for Inland Marine Container Transport

This study addresses the vehicle dispatch problem with the chassis repositioning to operate the container exchange terminal and the chassis pool facility effectively reflecting the situation in Japan. It is assumed that the vehicle move types are consisted of (i) tractor only, (ii) tractor and chassis, (iii) tractor, chassis and container. To find the feasible solutions, this study proposes the solution approach based on Simulated Annealing. To investigate the impact of handling time length by the external tractor spent from gate-in to gate-out. As the results, total travel distance with long handling time is longer than that with the other handling time. More tractors with long handling time are required than that with the other handling time.