Dr. Miklós Krész and Dr. Balázs Dávid, InnoRenew CoE researchers, together with Daniil Baldouski from the University of Primorska, recently published a new scientific paper “Scheduling truck arrivals for efficient container flow management in port logistics,” in the Central European Journal of Operations Research.

The management of truck arrivals at container terminals is crucial for efficient port operations, this is why optimizing truck queues outside and inside the port, can lead to an improvement in the overall efficiency of the port processes. Authors present a mixed-integer linear programming formulation to determine these optimal truck routes and schedules. The developed methods are evaluated on instances simulated based on real-world data.