Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

12-2016

Abstract

Effective management of land-side transportation provides the competitive advantage to port terminal operators in improving services and efficient use of limited space in an urban port. We present a hybrid simulation model that combines traffic-flow modeling and discrete-event simulation for land-side port planning and evaluation of traffic conditions for a number of what-if scenarios. We design our model based on a real-world case of a bulk cargo port. The problem is interesting due to complexity of heterogeneous closed-looped internal vehicles and external vehicles traveling in spaces with very limited traffic regulation (no traffic lights, no traffic wardens) and the traffic interactions with port operations such as loading and unloading cargos. Our simulation results show interesting decision-support scenarios for decision makers to evaluate future port planning possibilities and to derive regulation policies governing the port traffic.

Keywords

hybrid simulation, traffic, optimization, port operation

Discipline

Computer Sciences | Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering | Transportation

Research Areas

Intelligent Systems and Optimization

Publication

WSC 2016: Winter Simulation Conference, Washington, DC, December 11-14: Proceedings

First Page

2382

Last Page

2393

ISBN

9781509044863

Identifier

10.1109/WSC.2016.7822278

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2016.7822278

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