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Number 4 - December 2022
Volume 32 - 2022
A container ship traffic model for simulation studies
Jakub Wawrzyniak, Maciej Drozdowski, Éric Sanlaville
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to develop a container ship traffic model for port simulation studies. Such a model is essential
for terminal design analyses and testing the performance of optimization algorithms. This kind of studies requires accurate
information about the ship stream to build test scenarios and benchmark instances. A statistical model of ship traffic is
developed on the basis of container ship arrivals in eight world ports. The model provides three parameters of the arriving
ships: ship size, arrival time and service time. The stream of ships is divided into classes according to vessel sizes. For
each class, service time distributions and mixes of return time distributions are provided. A model of aperiodic arrivals is
also proposed. Moreover, the results achieved are used to compare port specific features.
Keywords
benchmark instances, algorithm evaluation, data analysis, scheduling, container ship traffic modeling, marine logistics