Smart and sustainable logistics of Port cities: A framework for comprehending enabling factors, domains and goals

D’Amico, Gaspare; Szopik-Depczyńska, Katarzyna; Dembińska, Izabela; Ioppolo, Giuseppe

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2021.102801

Cited by 78 publications

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“…The recent literature contains many technological solutions for minimizing the number of real damage event occurrences. Smart Digital Technologies (SDT) integrated into the logistic processes of the port are becoming increasingly decisive due to the need for policymakers, urban planners, governmental administrators, managers, transport operators, related port authorities, and shipping companies to develop intelligently digitalized and overall sustainable logistic processes for the entire port and beyond [ 23 , 24 , 25 ]. To cope with the intense datafication and globalization of trade on a global scale [ 26 ], mostly using shipping containers, new data-driven approaches are being developed [ 27 , 28 ] to promote intelligent and sustainable development of digital and secure logistics [ 29 , 30 ].…”

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Detecting Shipping Container Impacts with Vertical Cell Guides inside Container Ships during Handling Operations

Jakovlev

Eglynas

Vozňák

et al. 2022

Sensors

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Due to the mechanical nature of container handling operations, as well as natural factors, container and handling infrastructure suffers various types of damage during use, especially within the tight and enclosed environments of a ship’s hull. In this operational environment, it is critical to detect any sort of physical impacts between the vertical cell guides of the ship’s hull and the container. Currently, an inspection of impacts and evaluation of any consequences is performed manually, via visual inspection processes. This process is time-consuming and relies on the technical expertise of the personnel involved. In this paper, we propose a five-step impact-detection methodology (IDM), intended to detect only the most significant impact events based on acceleration data. We conducted real measurements in a container terminal using a sensory device placed on the spreader of the quay crane. The proposed solution identified an average of 12.8 container impacts with the vertical cell guides during common handling operations. In addition, the results indicate that the presented IDM can be used to recognize repeated impacts in the same space of each bay of the ship, and can be used as a decision support tool for predictive maintenance systems.

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Section: Review Of Recent Advancementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Detecting Shipping Container Impacts with Vertical Cell Guides inside Container Ships during Handling Operations

Jakovlev

Eglynas

Vozňák

et al. 2022

Sensors

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“…aim at optimizing vehicular circularity within urban contexts [171]. The next challenge for policymakers, urban managers, and planners is to integrate the autonomous vehicles-produced by the most important car manufactures and already being tested in various cities around the world-into the urban and regulatory fabric [172,173]. Nowadays, citizens, companies, and local authorities operate in a fully networked urban environment through mobile and fixed devices without limitations of time, place, and typology [174].…”

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Digital Technologies for Urban Metabolism Efficiency: Lessons from Urban Agenda Partnership on Circular Economy

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Digital technologies engaged in urban metabolism for efficiency provide policymakers, urban managers, and planners with useful instruments to collect, monitor, analyze, and evaluate the circularity of environmental, social, and economic resources to improve their effectiveness and quality. At present, the digital technology-based approach is strategic for circular cities engaged in the development of smart and sustainable actions in the fields of mobility, energy, environment, waste, telecommunications, and security. Through the ‘Circular Resource Efficiency Management Framework’ developed by the European Commission, this paper generates insights into the digitalization practices of the circularity of urban metabolism by analyzing the initiatives implemented by the municipalities of Kaunas, Flanders region, Porto, Prato, The Hague, and Oslo, which constitute the Partnership on Circular Economy (PCE) of the Urban Agenda of the European Union. The results of the analysis provide a wide range of practices such as real-time monitoring stations for water and energy consumption, digital cameras for controlling vehicle flows, web platforms for sharing goods and services, and tracking sensors for public transport, which aim to optimize the efficiency of the circularity of urban metabolic flows. This study increases the understanding and awareness of digital technologies in this paradigm shift.

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“…The present research underpins this finding and claims that ports need to be sensitized and a huge amount of empathy needs to be placed on SMSPs when dealing with their environmental and digital transition. In doing this, the research reduces the concerned gap in literature of missing decision-making for ports in terms of sustainability, integration of stakeholders, and learning avenues [53,54,58,94,109]. In contrast to the existing literature on smaller ports that utilize only case studies for making contributions [53,54,110], this research builds upon a rich body of cases and makes use of cross-case analysis, thus, making the results more transferable, reliable, and replicable.…”

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Small and Medium-Sized Ports in the TEN-T Network and Nexus of Europe’s Twin Transition: The Way towards Sustainable and Digital Port Service Ecosystems

Gerlitz

Meyer

2021

Sustainability

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Despite high competition among big EU ports, such as Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Valencia, acting as Core Ports in the Trans-European Transport Core and Comprehensive Network (TEN-T), this paper addresses the marginalized decision-making capability for environmental and digital transition immanent in the Small and Medium-Sized Ports (SMSPs) ecosystems in the EU. Irrespective of topical research, little is said about SMSPs ecosystem sustainability robustness and how SMSPs can pursue the transformative way. Here, management and strategic port decision levels are rather patchy and disconnected from the operational port performance. SMSPs are bound to limited resources and low cognitive, organizational, or institutional proximity, compared to their bigger counterparts. This situation provides a lot of room for critical demarche, since in the TEN-T Network, there are 225 Comprehensive and only 104 Core Ports, the majority qualifying, thus, as SMSPs. This research aims at reducing this research-to-practice lacuna by improving limited managerial capacity of SMSPs on environmental responsibility and digital efficiency. Using an ecosystem concept and aggregated empirical data in three EU macro-regions—the Baltic Sea Region, the Adriatic-Ionian Sea Region, and the Mediterranean Sea Region, three specific decision-making tools are suggested for managerial applications to facilitate and reinforce transition in SMSPs for environmental responsibility, social equity, and economic efficiency.

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Smart and sustainable logistics of Port cities: A framework for comprehending enabling factors, domains and goals

Cited by 78 publications

References 170 publications

Detecting Shipping Container Impacts with Vertical Cell Guides inside Container Ships during Handling Operations

Detecting Shipping Container Impacts with Vertical Cell Guides inside Container Ships during Handling Operations

Digital Technologies for Urban Metabolism Efficiency: Lessons from Urban Agenda Partnership on Circular Economy

Small and Medium-Sized Ports in the TEN-T Network and Nexus of Europe’s Twin Transition: The Way towards Sustainable and Digital Port Service Ecosystems

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