The Centre for Transport Studies is pleased to welcome
Mr. Xin Liu (CTS, Imperial College London)
to lead a seminar entitled
Port Choice: A Maritime Container Flow Assignment Model
to be held
Tomorrow (Wednesday 14 March 2012) – 16:00
Please join us for presentation and discussion at
Room 163, Skempton Building, Imperial College London
(Maps and travel directions: http://www.cts.cv.imperial.ac.uk/html/Miscellaneous/travelDirections.asp)
Abstract
The classic frequency-based transit assignment approach of Spiess and Florian is transferred and applied to maritime containers interpreting its promise as the foundation for a global maritime container assignment model. The first version of this model measured in time units illustrates the maritime container flow assignment efficiently. However, a further developed model measured in cost units will fit in the reality more in the perspective of the parties involved in container liner shipping market. Three significant model extensions are necessitated which are empty containers repositioning, upper limit to the maximum number of container moves within a particular time period at any port and upper limit to the maximum number of container carried within a particular time period on any route. This seminar will present the basis of formulating this model, cost factors in container liner shipping and the motivation of including empty container repositioning.
About the Speakers
Mr. Xin Liu is a PhD student at CTS, Imperial College London where he has also obtained his MSc in Transport. Before that he was awarded his BSc and BEng at Dalian Maritime University (DMU), China. He has been involved with the improvement of the government administrative efficiency on logistics industry research scheme at DMU. Since the beginning of his postgraduate career, he expanded his research topic to the game theory in container liner shipping market. His research interests lie on container flow modelling and port choice.
Imperial’s next CTS Seminar
Professor John J. Bartholdi (The Supply Chain & Logistics Institute, Georgia Tech, USA) will be leading a seminar titled “A self-coordinating approach to the bus bunching problem in urban transport” on Wednesday 21 March 2012 @ 16:00.
About the CTS Seminar Series
The CTS seminar series aims to facilitate discussion on current research topics in the transport field. Seminars are held jointly with our colleagues in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London. They are usually held on Wednesday afternoons at Imperial College London or University College London.
Seminars are free of charge and open to all interested parties. Booking is not required.
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