Ship Disaster and its Impacts on the Transportation Chain through Simulation

This paper presents a scenario analysis to determine the impact of a ship disaster on river Elbe on the transportation chain of the port of Hamburg. It is of special interest to decide how to dodge ships for the time of the disaster, and to detour trains and trucks...

Container Security Inspection: Simulation to Evaluate Various Container Sampling Plans on Port Operations

This paper presents a simulation model to determine the impact of various container inspection sampling plans on the operation of a seaport container terminal. Of special interest is the turn around times for ships, trains and trucks. Included in this paper are the...

Conceptual Framework for Simulating Seaport Terminals

This paper presents a conceptual framework for the development of seaport simulation models. The framework has been successfully used to model a bulk coal handling terminal, a seaport container terminal and an airport intermodal center. Included in this paper are a...

Bottleneck Analysis of Multimodal Transportation

This paper presents an analysis to determine the impact of bottlenecks on multimodal transportation chains. A bottleneck-analysis in general is a process related approach to identify shortages. In relation to transportation it is concerned with analysis of resource...

A Methodology to Use FAF2 Data to Forecast External-External Trips

Simulating freight activity in a statewide model requires the development of an origin/destination matrix containing internal-internal trips, internal-external and external-internal trips, and external-external trips.  The external-external trips are often difficult...

Using a Gravity Distribution Model and Discrete Event Simulation to Enhance Freight Planning

Freight analysis and planning has lagged behind traditional transportation planning and is often neglected in models following the four-step process.  National projections are that freight shipments will double in the next decade.  In Alabama, manufacturing growth and...