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ICCL 2015: Computational Logistics pp 495–509Cite as

Reducing Port-Related Truck Emissions: Coordinated Truck Appointments to Reduce Empty Truck Trips

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Port-related emissions are a growing problem for urban areas often located directly next to ports highly frequented by trucks and vessels. Empty truck trips are responsible for a significant share of these emissions. Truck appointment systems (TASs) allow scheduling of truck arrivals and enable collaboration among truckers. Though, TASs leveraging the potential to reduce avoidable emissions due to empty trips have hardly been studied. We aim to show how a TAS following this idea may be designed and evaluate the approach. We thus review requirements for a collaborative TAS and develop a discrete-event simulation model to assess coordinated truck appointments in a practical case of drayage. The results indicate that the approach effectively reduces port-related truck emissions, but might create congestion in the port. The considered case refers to drayage processes, but may also be transferred to the hinterland. The developed simulation model assumes a generic truck appointment process and may also serve to analyze diverse cases.

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  1. Institute of Information Systems, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Frederik Schulte & Stefan Voß

  2. Faculty of Engineering and Basic Sciences, Universidad de Los Andes, Santiago, Chile

    Rosa G. González

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    Francesco Corman

  2. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Stefan Voß

  3. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Rudy R. Negenborn

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Schulte, F., González, R.G., Voß, S. (2015). Reducing Port-Related Truck Emissions: Coordinated Truck Appointments to Reduce Empty Truck Trips. In: Corman, F., Voß, S., Negenborn, R. (eds) Computational Logistics. ICCL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9335. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24264-4_34

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