Modeling & Simulation (M&S) has proved to be a day-to-day highly indispensable tool for complex systems design, management and monitoring. Therefore, the proposed research study aims at developing a simulation model to recreate the complexity of a medium-sized Mediterranean seaport and analyze the performance evolution of such system with particular reference to the ships turnaround time. After the input data analysis, simulation model development, verification and validation, a design of experiments (according to a 24 factorial experimental design) has been carried out in order to evaluate how some critical factors (i.e. inter-arrival times, loading/unloading times, number of cars and trucks to be unloaded/loaded) may affect the seaport performances. To this end an analysis of variance is performed and an analytical input-output meta-model, which can be used to evaluate the system performance, is determined.

Perfomance Analysis of A Southern Mediterranean Seaport via Discrete Event Simulation

LONGO, Francesco;
2013-01-01

Abstract

Modeling & Simulation (M&S) has proved to be a day-to-day highly indispensable tool for complex systems design, management and monitoring. Therefore, the proposed research study aims at developing a simulation model to recreate the complexity of a medium-sized Mediterranean seaport and analyze the performance evolution of such system with particular reference to the ships turnaround time. After the input data analysis, simulation model development, verification and validation, a design of experiments (according to a 24 factorial experimental design) has been carried out in order to evaluate how some critical factors (i.e. inter-arrival times, loading/unloading times, number of cars and trucks to be unloaded/loaded) may affect the seaport performances. To this end an analysis of variance is performed and an analytical input-output meta-model, which can be used to evaluate the system performance, is determined.
2013
logistics; marine ports; supply chain
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