| Author | Pinkney, A |
| Date Accessioned | 2013-12-12 |
| Date Available | 2013-12-12 |
| Issued | 1998 |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11079/13081 |
| Abstract | 23 out of 28 Australian sugar mills operate privately owned cane railway systems and, as a
group, these systems form the third largest rail transport system in Australia. |
| Abstract | The purpose of cane railway scheduling is to build a set of locomotive runs, or a schedule,
that minimizes the costs involved and satisfies the demands of both the miller and the
grower. There are several characteristics of this problem that sets it apart from other
scheduling problems: |
| Abstract | Harvested sugar cane is a perishable product that deteriorates at an increasing rate
after it is harvested |
| Abstract | The schedule can determine, to a certain extent, the timing of the harvest, and the
demand for empty bins by the growers. |
| Abstract | This project improves the Automatic Cane Railway Scheduling System, ACRSS, so that the
schedules generated by ACRSS more closely reflect operational schedules. |
| Language | en |
| Publisher | Central Queensland University |
| Part of Series | Internal Report; 1998 CQU004 |
| Subject | Milling |
| Subject | Technology |
| Title | Intelligent adaptive control in an on-line cane transport scheduler : final report UCQ2S |
| Keywords | Transport, Cane rail system, Cane Railway Scheduling Problem, Automatic Cane Railway Scheduling System (ACRSS), Mathematical model, Optimization algorithms, Harvester roster, Depot system |
