The design of waiting areas to optimize the storage capacity in the marine intermodal terminals
Conference Paper
Publication Date:
2009
Short description:
The design of waiting areas to optimize the storage capacity in the marine intermodal terminals / Corriere, F; LO BOSCO, Dario. - 81:(2009), pp. 121-130. (Intervento presentato al convegno VII Internat. Conf. Stochastic Geometry, Empirical Measure, Convex Bodies and Appl... tenutosi a Messina nel Settembre 2009).
abstract:
The appropriate sizing of storage areas to optimize the management of
intermodal transport, the adoption of environment protection systems and the
appropriate flow’s regulations inside manoeuvre’s zones can solve many
problems encountered today in a intermodal marine terminal.
For these reasons the “integrated design” of storage areas for vehicles
and containers is considered essential to ensure efficiency and functionality for
all harbour-system.
So is here proposed a simulative model as a tool for a more correct
design of waiting areas by considering the real stochastic conditions of the
process of the arrivals.
For the sizing of areas for containers in the harbours, it is necessary to
report the storage capacity in terms of TEU that can be stored (and handled) in
the unit of time, e.g. in one year, with the extension of sites for storage of boxes
and furniture with the other specific operating parameters.
The sizing of storage areas of the goods date constitutes a delicate
problem the frequent shortage of the areas available. The ability to warehouse
of the terminal is essentially determined from the interrelation between fixed
and static parameters in the short period which the extension of the storage area,
the height of the overlapping batteries of container (defined also like number of
“shooting”), the means of movements and, at last, a series of parameters that
can vary the efficiency’s degree according to of the operatives of the terminal.
The optimal level of use is caught up when it is employed
approximately the 60-65% of the maximum storage capacity; account is kept,
therefore, of a sure tolerance necessary in order to make forehead to eventual
peaks of traffic in the periods in which the volume of container in the terminal
or advanced to that mean. By use of the Sartor expression (1997), it is possible
to find out the capacity of traffic C of a terminal for container in a period of
reference (generally one year) and this can be useful in order to define the
requirements of areas to assign to the storage.
intermodal transport, the adoption of environment protection systems and the
appropriate flow’s regulations inside manoeuvre’s zones can solve many
problems encountered today in a intermodal marine terminal.
For these reasons the “integrated design” of storage areas for vehicles
and containers is considered essential to ensure efficiency and functionality for
all harbour-system.
So is here proposed a simulative model as a tool for a more correct
design of waiting areas by considering the real stochastic conditions of the
process of the arrivals.
For the sizing of areas for containers in the harbours, it is necessary to
report the storage capacity in terms of TEU that can be stored (and handled) in
the unit of time, e.g. in one year, with the extension of sites for storage of boxes
and furniture with the other specific operating parameters.
The sizing of storage areas of the goods date constitutes a delicate
problem the frequent shortage of the areas available. The ability to warehouse
of the terminal is essentially determined from the interrelation between fixed
and static parameters in the short period which the extension of the storage area,
the height of the overlapping batteries of container (defined also like number of
“shooting”), the means of movements and, at last, a series of parameters that
can vary the efficiency’s degree according to of the operatives of the terminal.
The optimal level of use is caught up when it is employed
approximately the 60-65% of the maximum storage capacity; account is kept,
therefore, of a sure tolerance necessary in order to make forehead to eventual
peaks of traffic in the periods in which the volume of container in the terminal
or advanced to that mean. By use of the Sartor expression (1997), it is possible
to find out the capacity of traffic C of a terminal for container in a period of
reference (generally one year) and this can be useful in order to define the
requirements of areas to assign to the storage.
Iris type:
4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno
List of contributors:
Corriere, F; LO BOSCO, Dario
Book title:
Supplemento ai Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo