Agent based simulation architecture for evaluating operational policies in transshipping containers

Authors:
Lawrence Henesey;Paul Davidsson;Jan A. Persson
Affiliations:
Department of Systems and Software Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlshamn, Sweden;Department of Systems and Software Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlshamn, Sweden;Department of Systems and Software Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlshamn, Sweden
Venue:
MATES'06 Proceedings of the 4th German conference on Multiagent System Technologies
Year:
2006

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Abstract

An agent based simulator for evaluating operational policies in the transshipment of containers in a container terminal is described. The simulation tool, called SimPort, is a decentralized approach to simulating managers and entities in a container terminal. We use real data from a container terminal, for evaluating eight transshipment policies. The simulation results indicate that good choices of yard stacking and berthing position polices can lead to faster ship turn-around times, for instance, the Overall Time Shortening policy offers a lower cost and when combined with a Shortest Job First sequencing of arriving ships on average yielded a faster ship turn around time. The results also indicated, with respect to the studied performance measures that Stacking by Destination is a good choice of policy.