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Title
Joint tugboat and dock pilot capacity prediction
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Abstract
Nautical chain scheduling is a major point-of-action for the deep-sea port authorities, as mismanagement and lack of long-term information about events happening in the port area incur delays and extra costs. The traditional way of working, where multiple stakeholders involved with own planning mechanisms and limited data sharing, shows inefficacy to meet upcoming cargo flow's demand. In this work, we propose to tackle the long-term information deficiency problem on the joint tugboat and dock pilot assignments. Our contributions are three-fold: (1) extensive data analysis on large-scale tugboat and dock pilot related data from a deep-sea port, (2) creation of a time series dataset for tugboat and dock pilot capacity prediction, and (3) benchmarking of various time series prediction methods on our dataset including LSTM, Transformers and NLinear models. As we aimed to predict the capacity of both tugboats and dock pilots on a longer horizon, we position our work in the domain of Long-Term Time Series Forecasting (LTTF) which is a specific case of Time Series Forecasting. By using NLinear on our joint tugboat and dock pilot capacity dataset, we achieve an average of close to 60% accuracy on capacity prediction on tugboat categories and dock pilots over a 12-h horizon.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Proceeding of the 7th International Conference on Logistics Operations Management, GOL'24
Source (book)
7th International Conference on Logistics Operations Management (GOL), MAY 02-04, 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco
Publication
Cham : Springer international publishing ag , 2024
ISBN
978-3-031-68627-6
978-3-031-68628-3
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-68628-3_11
Volume/pages
1104 (2024) , p. 106-116
ISI
001340498800011
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The author-created version that incorporates referee comments and is the accepted for publication version Available from 28.08.2025
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Creation 02.12.2024
Last edited 10.12.2024
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