AR 06-02
Assessing near-dock rail loading and offloading procedures at the Port of LA/LB for application to a container conveyor to ICTFs
Kenneth A James
Electrical Engineering
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
Tel: 562-985-5105
Fax: 562-985-2583
Email: james@csulb.edu
Project Objectives:
The objective of this monitoring project is to produce a metric displaying the range of container near-dock rail loading capacities for various types of equipment and procedures presently used at the Ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach. In addition to load/off-load times, labor requirements, area involved, and impacts on other terminal processes during a load will be evaluated. This metric can then be applied to recently proposed container conveyor systems as well as planned expansion of near-dock rail at the port.
Tasks:
1. Select and contact two terminals-one with top-loaders, another with railed crane.
2. Observe and record near-dock rail load/offload operations. Include measured 3-dimensional space utilization, crew size, times, and costs to operator.
3. Generate tabulated data display allowing parametric comparisons between load/offload processes as well as a means of projecting effectiveness and costs of proposed processes.
Milestones/Dates:
7/1/06 through 6/30/07
Total Budget:
$40,000
Student Involvement:
One Graduate Student & One Undergraduate Student $6165
