SUPPORT OF CONTAINER TERMINAL DESIGN
USING SIMULATION MODELS JOINTLY
Edwin C. Valentin,
Technology Policy and Management,
Technical University of Delft ,
Delft, Netherlands
edwinv@tbm.tudelft.nl
Krzysztof Amborski,
Institute of Control and Industrial Electronics ,
Warsaw University of Technology,
Warsaw, Poland
ambor@ee.pw.edu.pl
ABSTRACT:The paper is going to deliver a message: Managers should learn to open up for support tools in design process. As a case study for it a simulation supported design of maritime container terminal has been chosen. Container transport - especially overseas - has grown quickly since its introduction. Organization of loading and unloading of containers plays a crucial role in optimising the time and cost of whole operation - port to port delivery. Design of a new terminal as well as improvement of an existing one requires a lot of design options to be made affecting a wide range of performance indices. The most important one is the cost of handling a container, next one is the time of operation. The new developed technologies in management-game environments using simulation with high degree of interactivity and visual graphic support have been tested in three different groups of users - management students, MBA-course students and computer science students. The results were astonishingly different and very interesting, what is described in details in the paper.
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