Simulationbased rescheduling of the stackerreclaimer operation
This section provides details about the stackerreclaimers operation. Fig. 1 shows two typical stockyard layouts for import terminals where only the active belt conveyors are shown. In layout A (Fig. 1 A) the stockyard contains four outer lanes (L1 and L4) are accessible by one stackerreclaimer while the middle lanes (L2 and L3) can be reached by two stackerreclaimers.