Research Article

Minimization of Delay and Travel Time of Yard Trucks in Container Terminals Using an Improved GA with Guidance Search

Table 8

Computational results of random instances in small scale.

Experiment number Size (loading × discharging × storage locations)CPLEXSimple GA Gap (%) between CPLEX and simple GAHybrid GAGap (%) between CPLEX and hybrid GA
ValueCPU (s)ValueCPU (s)ValueCPU (s)

13 × 3 × 3177.67.77177.63.110177.61.830
23 × 3 × 5157.227.31157.22.970157.22.010
34 × 4 × 4209.6148.22209.63.530209.62.610
44 × 4 × 5209.67133.48209.63.670209.62.600
55 × 4 × 421446350218.53.702.1%2143.170
65 × 5 × 5283.697612292.43.813.1%283.63.640
77 × 5 × 5372.618935384.63.863.2%372.64.100
87 × 7 × 9365*382.24.044.7%3654.780
99 × 7 × 10385*406.94.275.7%3854.950
1010 × 10 × 20443.5*476.14.387.3%443.55.590

The computational time is longer than 10 hours.