Technology Overview

A greater level of globalisation in various industries and social activities brings more maritime transport and requests for optimisation across the oceans and ports. Heavier maritime transport will impact the operational efficiency of key maritime players including ports and logistics operators.

Traffic movement in a port is complex because of the highly uncertain nature of the vessel arrivals, loading and unloading from vessels, movements of goods in and out of the port, and internal shuffling and shunting of operation traffic. The evolving process of port traffic flow is a critical aspect that influences the performance of port operations.

Our approach is a simulation-based solution that enables planners to evaluate port traffic operations under different operational scenarios, so as to enhance processes for higher efficiency and facilitate traffic policy-making for future expansion of the port. The simulator evaluates the potential port traffic bottlenecks and relationships between the related processes. For example, the coupling effect of traffic generated by one process (e.g., unloading process of cement) on another process (e.g., shunting process of steel) at different parts of the port arising from increased cargo (and traffic) volume.

Our simulator can contribute towards enhancing port throughput and efficiency in ASEAN and globally, as the simulator is a decision support and planning tool for policy makers to identify the effectiveness of operation policies and new business scenarios such as an increase in port throughput.

Features & Specifications

Potential Applications

• Simulation models, delivered via a visualisation tool, are used to assess various what-if scenarios such as different vehicle arrival rates and volume, impact of ship arrivals, changes to service stations.
• Delivers key performance index such as congestion level at road networks and service stations, and vehicle and service throughput.

Customer Benefits