Optimal Sequencing of Parking Operations at an Automotive Maritime Terminal

The yard management of an automotive maritime terminal often requires the consolidation of parking areas, via reallocation of cars, usually of the same brand, to predefined destination lanes. These operations are performed by a set of drivers that are transferred back from the parking areas to the pick-up points by a set of shuttle vehicles. We focus on the problem of sequencing the cars to be moved by each driver, defining the shuttle routes, taking into account the labour agreements, while minimizing both the number of drivers and shuttles needed to perform the task