Fostering Sustainable Transportation Operations through Corridor Management: A Simulation Gaming Approach

Kurapati, Shalini; Kourounioti, Ioanna; Lukosch, Heide; Tavasszy, Lóránt; Verbraeck, Alexander

doi:10.3390/su10020455

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“…Serious games represent an interactive and efficient instrument for learning, decision-making, and awareness building and they are an effective tool for simulating dynamic and complex systems, such as transport and logistics systems [35,36]. While the sector has successfully implemented game-based approaches to address several challenges already (see e.g., [44,45,63,64]), the question of innovation implementation has not yet been addressed thoroughly through a game-based approach. Below, we explain how the two games, based on the two illustrated cases, have been designed in order to fill this gap.…”

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“…Focusing on the Dutch railway system, Van den Hoogen and Meijer [44], found that simulation gaming can contribute to the coordinated planning of innovation implementation. Kurapati et al [45], examined how simulation games can be used to foster sustainability in transportation operations through synchromodal corridor management. The authors developed a digital simulation game which was tested in game sessions with experts in The Netherlands.…”

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Logistics and transport systems are complex systems for which sustainable innovations are urgently needed. Serious games are an acknowledged tool for training, learning, and decision making, as well as for helping to introduce innovative concepts for complex systems. Technological innovations for the transport domain that can improve sustainability are usually heavily dependent on the collaboration among actors. A simulation gaming approach can help these actors in understanding the challenges involved, and in finding solutions in a playful, interactive way. Our research approach includes a thorough literature review on games for innovation and collaboration in transport networks, and the development of two dedicated simulation games addressing sustainability innovations for the Port of Rotterdam, the largest seaport in Europe and one of the largest in the world. The two innovation cases are truck platooning and multi-sided digital platforms for barge transportation, both improving the sustainability of hinterland transportation. The games serve as instruments to reveal interactions and tensions among actors, contribute to the interpretation of their behavior, and eventually help all parties to reach a better understanding on how innovation adoption can be fostered, using an innovation ecosystem perspective. We are convinced that serious gaming, by providing a better understanding of the innovation process, will help the implementation of sustainability innovations in complex systems.

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“…Several perspectives on how to validate (or evaluate) games exist (e.g., [50][51][52]). In this work, we follow the perspective that this activity could be assimilated to the "confirmation through the provision of objective evidence that the requirements for a specific intended use or application of a system have been fulfilled" [53], where the term "system" refers to the game.…”

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An Analytical Game for Knowledge Acquisition for Maritime Behavioral Analysis Systems

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2020

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The use of Bayesian networks for behavioral analysis is gaining attention. The design of such algorithms often makes use of expert knowledge. The knowledge is collected and organized during the knowledge acquisition design task. In this paper, we discuss how analytical games can be exploited as knowledge acquisition techniques in order to collect information useful to intelligent systems design. More specifically, we introduce a recently developed method, called the MARISA (MARItime Surveillance knowledge Acquisition) Game. The aim of this game is to ease the elicitation from domain experts of a considerable amount of conditional probabilities to be encoded into a maritime behavioral analysis service based on a multi-source dynamic Bayesian network. The game has been deployed in two experiments. The main objectives of such experiments are the validation of the network structure, the acquisition of the conditional probabilities for the network, and the overall validation of the game method. The results of the experiment show that the objectives have been met and that the MARISA Game proved to be an effective and efficient approach.

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“…Simulation gaming is an increasingly accepted research method to study complex systems (Kurapati et al, 2018). Simulation games can be described as experimental, rule-based, interactive and social organization, constituted by the players themselves, who learn by taking actions and by experiencing their effects through feedback mechanisms within the game (Mayer, 2009;Lukosch et al, 2018).…”

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Gaming as a research method in humanitarian logistics

Lukosch

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for research through game design and discuss how simulation games can be used to bridge the gap between operational exercises and simulation or analytical modelling and to provide guidelines on how simulation games can be designed for different research purposes in the context of humanitarian logistics. Design/methodology/approach This paper combines a literature review on gaming as a research method with an analysis of requirements for humanitarian logistics research methods. Starting from this theoretical framework, the authors develop a design thinking approach that highlights how games can be used for different research purposes. To illustrate the approach, the authors develop two different game set-ups that are of increasing fidelity and complexity. Finally, the authors discuss the results of the evaluation of both approaches, reflect on the design choices and provide recommendations for research and practice. Findings Gaming is a suitable research method to explore and analyse behaviour and decisions in emergent settings that require team work and collaborative problem solving. Especially when safety and security concerns may hinder access and experimentation on site, gaming can offer a realistic and engaging quasi-experimental environment. The aspects of engagement and realism also make gaming a suitable tool to combine training and research. Originality/value Although the use of games has attracted some attention in commercial supply chain management and crisis response, there is no systematic overview of gaming as a research method in humanitarian logistics. This paper is set to make a headway in addressing this gap by proposing a concrete approach to design games for humanitarian logistics research.

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Fostering Sustainable Transportation Operations through Corridor Management: A Simulation Gaming Approach

Cited by 24 publications

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Let the Game Begin: Enhancing Sustainable Collaboration among Actors in Innovation Ecosystems in a Playful Way

Let the Game Begin: Enhancing Sustainable Collaboration among Actors in Innovation Ecosystems in a Playful Way

An Analytical Game for Knowledge Acquisition for Maritime Behavioral Analysis Systems

Gaming as a research method in humanitarian logistics

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