Vessel Scheduling Optimization in Different Types of Waterway

With the continuous development of maritime-hardware systems, intelligent decision making in port transport becomes increasingly more important. There are three types of waterways in China, which is specific about one-way waterways, two-way waterways, and compound waterways. Modelling of vessel-scheduling optimization in ports aims at giving a concrete contribution to efficient, safe, and environmentally friendly maritime transport. The model will service to innovative the e-navigational shipping industry, which can lay the groundwork for a future vessel traffic service (VTS). These studies assess the effects of channel and berth resources to improve the operation efficiency of ports using a multi-objective vessel scheduling–optimization model. Taking the minimum total scheduling and waiting times of vessels, the model was established based on these waterways by considering safety, efficiency, and fairness. To solve the proposed model, a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) was used in this paper. Compared with the first-come, first-served (FCFS) scheduling method, the capacity-conversion times of vessels entering and leaving a port and the total scheduling time are decreased efficiently. These works contribute to improving the safety and optimization of ship scheduling catering to the intelligence trends of future maritime service portfolios (MSP).