Matthew Petering - Assistant Professor

Education
Ph.D., Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 2007
M.S., Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 2003
B.A., Washington University in Saint Louis, 1999

Research Interests
Operations research; logistics; transportation; ocean and rail container shipping; material handling systems; supply chain management.

Selected Publications

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

1. "Discrete time model and algorithms for container yard crane scheduling," W. Li, Y. Wu, M.E.H. Petering, M. Goh, and R. de Souza, to appear in European Journal of Operational Research.
2. "Effect of block length and yard crane deployment systems on overall performance at a seaport container transshipment terminal," M.E.H. Petering and Katta G. Murty, to appear in Computers & Operations Research.
3. "Performance analysis of a multiple vehicle tandem system with inter-vehicle
   buffers and blocking," M.E.H. Petering, J. Seo, and C. Lee, Computers in
   Industry, 58 (2007) 3-11.
4. "Development and simulation analysis of real-time yard crane control systems for seaport container transshipment terminals," M.E.H. Petering, Y. Wu, W. Li, M. Goh, and R. de Souza, to appear in OR Spectrum.

JOURNAL SUBMISSIONS:

1. "Real-time container storage location assignment at a seaport container transshipment terminal," M.E.H. Petering and Katta G. Murty, submitted.
2. "Effect of Block Width and Storage Yard Layout on Overall Performance at a Seaport Container Transshipment Terminal," M.E.H. Petering, submitted.
3. "Decision support for yard capacity, fleet composition, truck substitutability, and scalability issues at seaport container terminals via discrete event simulation," M.E.H. Petering, submitted.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:

1. "Simulation analysis of yard crane routing systems at a marine container
   transshipment terminal," M.E.H. Petering, Y. Wu, W. Li, M. Goh, K.G. Murty, and
   R. de Souza, International Congress on Logistics and Supply Chain Management Systems, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, May 2006.
2. "Simulation analysis of algorithms for container storage and yard crane
   scheduling at a container terminal," M.E.H. Petering and K.G. Murty, Second
   International Intelligent Logistics Systems Conference, Brisbane, Australia,
   February 2006.
3. "Performance analysis of a multiple vehicle tandem system with inter-vehicle
   buffers and blocking," M.E.H. Petering, J. Seo, and C. Lee, Fifth International
   Conference on "Analysis of Manufacturing Systems – Production Management,"
   Zakynthos Island, Greece, May 2005.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

1. "Development and simulation analysis of real-time, inter-zone yard crane
   deployment systems for seaport container transshipment terminals," M.E.H.
   Petering and F.B. Talbot, working paper.
2. "Development and simulation analysis of real-time, dual-load truck
   dispatching systems for seaport container transshipment terminals,"M.E.H.
   Petering, working paper.