Simulation
Making fully informed decisions
Today’s marine cargo terminals and intermodal rail facilities require substantial investments and play a vital role in the international transport network, determining the performance of transport chains. Therefore, accurate insights into future terminal operations and performance effects of planning decisions are of crucial importance for the long-term operational success and profitability of terminal operators. By means of simulation, future terminal operations are depicted in detail, including the dynamic interdependencies of all equipment and stochastic influences, such as hardly predictable truck arrival times and human-influenced duration of terminal operations, thus returning most realistic results. Against this background, HPC is extensively using simulation for planning and optimizing all types of marine cargo terminals and intermodal rail facilities, particularly to:
- verify feasibility of terminal designs
- identify bottlenecks
- compare alternative layouts and technologies
- determine resource requirements
- reduce development and construction cost, and quantify optimization potential
- determine energy consumption and emissions