Identifying Suitable Transshipment Points for a Decentralized Waterborne Container Transportation Network

Alias, Cyril; Dahlke, L.; Heerwagen, Ole; Grunder, D.; Felde, Jonas Zum; Pusch, L.; Severin, Sven

doi:10.1109/ieem45057.2020.9309903

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“…The road network covers the whole territory and plays the main connecting role for the transport network between areas, regions, airports, seas, border gates, and important traffic hubs. The share of road freight transport reached 76.3% of total inland freight transport in the European Union in 2019, while rail freight and inland waterways transport accounted for the remaining 23.7% [2]. As an important component of transportation systems, the roadway network should be planned and invested in contributing to the country's sustainable development.…”

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Measuring Road Transport Sustainability Using MCDM-Based Entropy Objective Weighting Method

Wang

Chang

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Symmetry

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Road haulage solutions are incredibly adaptable, having the capacity to link domestically and internationally. Road transportation offers a greener, more efficient, and safer future through sophisticated technology. Symmetry and asymmetry exist widely in industrial applications, and logistics and supply chains are no exception. The multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model is considered as a complexity tool to balance the symmetry between goals and conflicting criteria. This study can assist stakeholders in understanding the current state of transportation networks and planning future sustainability measures through the MCDM approach. The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate and compare the sustainable development of existing road transportation systems to determine whether any of them can be effectively developed in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The integrated entropy–CoCoSo approach for evaluating the sustainability of road transportation systems is introduced, and the framework process is proposed. The entropy method defines the weight of the decision criteria based on the real data. The advantage of the entropy method is that it reduces the subjective impact of decision-makers and increases objectivity. The CoCoSo method is applied for ranking the road transportation sustainability performance of OECD countries. Our findings revealed the top three countries’ sustainability performance: Japan, Germany, and France. These are countries with developed infrastructure and transportation services. Iceland, the United States, and Latvia were in the last rank among countries. This approach helps governments, decision-makers, or policyholders review current operation, benchmark the performance of other countries and devise new strategies for road transportation development to achieves better results.

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Measuring Road Transport Sustainability Using MCDM-Based Entropy Objective Weighting Method

Wang

Chang

et al. 2022

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Evaluating the Effects of a Decentralized Waterborne Container Transportation Service from the Perspective of an Inland Waterway Transport Hub

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Felde

Grunder

et al. 2023

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Examining the Logistics Performance of a Decentralized Waterborne Container Transportation Service in the West German Canal Network with the Help of Discrete-Event Simulation

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Felde

Severin

2023

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

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In order to alleviate road traffic congestion, a logistics concept based on small inland vessels in the West German canal network has been developed for the distribution of containers. The service concept rests on multiple transshipment points throughout the considered geographic area as potential origins and destinations of transport legs. After safeguarding the technical feasibility, the resulting service concept needs to be examined in order to assess its economic viability. Only with promising outcomes resulting from this assessment can potential operators be convinced to transfer the concept into reality, set up the decentralized waterborne container transportation service, and deploy actual inland vessels to be operated in the German waterways. Discrete-event simulation has established itself as an important analysis method in logistics and is suitable for the examination of logistics systems at an operational and tactical level. In the present setting, various scenarios have been selected as the most promising ones and simulated with appropriate models. Eventually, DES will help to determine the routes to be operated, the ports and transshipment points to be included in the respective routes, the vessels to be used, including their type and number, the manning regulation of the inland vessels to be selected, and the transshipment concept to be pursued. Ultimately, the logistics simulation reveals which scenarios turn out to be the most and least promising ones and allows overall statements on the expectable profitability of the service. Furthermore, it helps to identify utilization peaks of the examined inland vessels and transshipment points.

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Identifying Suitable Transshipment Points for a Decentralized Waterborne Container Transportation Network

Cited by 6 publications

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Measuring Road Transport Sustainability Using MCDM-Based Entropy Objective Weighting Method

Measuring Road Transport Sustainability Using MCDM-Based Entropy Objective Weighting Method

Evaluating the Effects of a Decentralized Waterborne Container Transportation Service from the Perspective of an Inland Waterway Transport Hub

Examining the Logistics Performance of a Decentralized Waterborne Container Transportation Service in the West German Canal Network with the Help of Discrete-Event Simulation

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