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2010 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Simulation of Container Traffic Flows at a Metropolitan Seaport
verfasst von : Hendrik Reefke
Erschienen in: Advanced Manufacturing and Sustainable Logistics
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Lack of integration, holism, and customizability are perennial problems that have beset research and practice in port simulations. This study investigates the container movements at a metropolitan sea terminal. The operations are mapped out and a logical model of the transportation flows is constructed. A simulation is developed in Arena that describes the transportation flows in an accurate but parsimonious manner. The study addresses several research gaps by providing a highly integrated, customisable and upgradeable simulation model which describes port operations in a more holistic fashion. Several experiments focussing on different modal splits for inter-terminal transport are carried out. The model provides a practical background to study the influence of operational changes, e.g. the influence of larger sea vessels on handling operations; effects of a larger share of rail transport; effects of increasing container throughput on throughput time and storage capacity; and the evaluation of sustainability measures.