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Estimating Truck Queuing Time at Marine Terminal Gates

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01337741

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Abstract:

Truck queuing at marine terminal gates has long been recognized as a source of emissions problems because of the many trucks that are idling. For this reason, stakeholders have a great interest in lessening the severity of the problem. To assist these stakeholders in addressing the congestion problem, baseline data and predictive models are needed. Unfortunately, data on truck queuing and research on the methodologies that can be used to estimate truck queuing time are limited. With an increasing number of marine terminals offering live webcam views of their gates to manage demand for the terminals, these webcams could be used to gather much-needed truck queuing information and other truck-related data. Data collected from the webcams were used to develop models to predict truck queuing times on an hourly or daily basis. Given the inherent fuzziness of the truck arrival data, this study evaluated the suitability of four predictive models capable of dealing with fuzzy data: multiple linear regression, fuzzy regression, clustering fuzzy regression, and support vector machines. Analysis showed that fuzzy regression outperformed other methods for the given data set.

Monograph Accession #:

01353535

Report/Paper Numbers:

11-3399

Language:

English

Authors:

Pham, Quyen
Huynh, Nathan
Xie, Yuanchang

Pagination:

pp 43-53

Publication Date:

2011

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2222
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

9780309167338

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (6) ; References (19) ; Tables (3)

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Subject Areas:

Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities; I73: Traffic Control

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 17 2011 6:30PM

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