To solve the revenue management-based overbooking problem of ocean shipping container position under stochastic capacity,an overbooking model without considering empty container transportation under stochastic capacity was constructed by applying the probability theory and the optimization theory.

By assuming uncertain capacity of container position to be a discrete random variable,an overbooking model is set up for ocean shipping container position with an expected total cost as optimization objective in consideration of the requirement of empty container transportation,where the overbooking strategies exist in both full container position and empty container position.

For the overbooking problem of ocean shipping container position with stochastic capacity,an overbooking model with the expected total cost as the optimization objective is constructed by considering the empty container transportation and the im-pact of overbooking levels for credit standing,where the uncertain capacity of container position is set to be discrete stochastic variable.

A Research on Empty Container Allocation Problem;

The Optimization Research of Sea-bound Empty Container Allocation under Stochastic Conditions;

Research on the Empty Container Allocation Problem for Multimodal Transportation;

Therefore, empty container disposition has become one of the most important subjects for study and discussion.

It is surveyed that the total cost of empty container disposition in the world has exceeded 30 billion dollars.

This paper analyzes a container shipping network including empty containers,and takes a digital depiction for the empty container repositioning network in Bohai Bay based on the database of the empty container repositioning in this area,which is constructed by Access.

This paper analyzes the CAECS(System of Collection and Allocation of Empty Containers),builds its Petri net model,and then simulates the model by simulation software EXSPECT so as to testify the effectiveness of Petri net.