Abstract
Ferry traffic is particularly dominant in inland seas such as the Baltic Sea, where it can exploit its advantage of high departure frequency and short journey times, thus enabling fast-moving traffic throughout Europe. Roll on/Roll off (RoRo) and Roll on/Roll off Passenger (RoPax) ports, however, are confronted with increasing competition for port expansion areas from various developments such as the rezoning to urban areas. Therefore, maintaining adequate access to RoRo/RoPax ports is becoming increasingly challenging and can only be achieved through the interaction of different stakeholders such as port authorities, ferry companies or city planners. In urban areas in particular, traffic situations increasingly occur that make it difficult for trucks or other vehicles to reach the port reliably and thus place a heavy load on terminal and shipping company resources.
After analysing the literature on simulation approaches with respect to truck arrival management in the RoRo/RoPax and the container terminal segment, the application of a pre-gate concept to the RoPax port Turku (Finland) in combination with a call-off structure was analysed by a simulation.
In the paper three different scenarios were compared regarding the positioning of pre-gate parking spaces according to the parameters: travel time, vehicle arrival time at the terminal and queue length at a prominent intersection.
The approach adopted offers a controllability that can be actively used by the terminal operators and stevedoring to make terminal operations and vehicle handling more efficient.
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Collect: Bring cargo together from different places.
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Buffer: Storage used for compensation regarding rate differences in cargo arrivals.
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Sort: Systematic arrangement in groups according to cargo types and specifications.
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The simulation part of this paper received funding from the »Fraunhofer Innovation Platform for Smart Shipping at Novia University of Applied Science« (FIP-S2@Novia).
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Willrodt, S., Krüger, S., Jahn, C. (2024). Application of Pre-gate Parking by a Use Case Study in RoPax Port of Turku. In: Freitag, M., Kinra, A., Kotzab, H., Megow, N. (eds) Dynamics in Logistics. LDIC 2024. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56826-8_14
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