Performance Analysis of a Southern Mediterranean Seaport via Discrete-Event Simulation

Abstract

Modeiing & Simulation flM&S) has proved to be a day-to-day highly indispensable tool tor complex systems design, management and monitoring. Therefore, the proposed research study aims to develop a simuiation model to recreate the complexity ot a medium-sized Mediterranean seaport and analyse the performance evolution of such system with particular reference to the ship turnaround time. After the input data analysis, simuiation model development, verification and vaiidation, a design ot experiments (according to a 24 factorial experimental design) was carried out in order to evaluate how some critical factors (i.e. inter-arrivai times, loading/unioading times, number of cars and truci<s to be unioaded/loaded) may affect the seaport's performance. To this end an analysis of variance is performed and an anaiyticai input-output meta-modei was created to evaluate the system's performance.

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