Storage Space Allocation of Inbound Container in Railway Container Terminal

Table 1

Notations.

Notation	Declaration
𝐾	The set of overlapping amounts
𝑆	The optimal set of slots allocation with minimum overlapping amount
𝑆^𝑣𝑟𝑏𝑙	The container allocated to 𝑠(𝑟,𝑏,𝑙)
𝐾^ICT𝑛	the overlapping amount increased by the 𝑛 feasible solution of ICT
𝑑^min𝑣𝑟𝑏𝑙	The minimum crane operation distances of the 𝑣 container allocated to 𝑠(𝑟,𝑏,𝑙)
𝐴	The alternative set of the 𝑣 allocated slot with minimum overlapping amount
𝐹	The feasible allocated set of container slots
𝑛	The number of feasible solutions
𝑑𝑣𝑟𝑏𝑙	The operation distance of crane for the 𝑣 allocated container
𝐼	An arbitrary positive big number