Enhanced crane operations in construction using service request optimization

    Authors

    Autom. Constr.

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Value Health

    Keywords

    Tower cranes; Decision support system; Optimization; Traveling Salesman; Problem; Optimization; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM; TOWER CRANES; LOCATION; Construction & Building Technology; Engineering, Civil

    Abstract

    This paper develops a novel service request sequence optimization model for tower crane operation efficiency improvement. The suggested model uses integer programming and modifies the classical Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) formulation for optimizing construction tower crane operations. Numerical examples demonstrate that the application of the developed optimization model can result in 25-45% saving in the total travel time of the tower crane depending on the number of simultaneous requests. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

    Subjects

    A. Zavichi; K. Madani; P. Xanthopoulos;A. A. Oloufa

    Volume

    47

    Publication Date

    1-1-2014

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    69

    Last Page

    77

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000343684700007

    ISSN

    0926-5805

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