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| Author(s): |
Marcelo Gomes Fernandes
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Politécnica (EP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2001-04-19 |
| Examining board members: |
Rui Carlos Botter;
Marco Antonio Brinati;
Nicolau Dionisio Fares Gualda
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| Advisor: | Rui Carlos Botter |
| Abstract | |
With the growing demand of the containerized multi-modal transport verified in Brazil, the logistics management processes in associating with the transport and the port operations became a complex activity, involving a great number of variables that interfere in the operation performance. In the current conjuncture, the search for the efficiency in the logistical processes constitutes a primordial factor in this area. The use of the simulation allows to model complex systems, being a very powerful and efficient tool as a decision-making in working out problems. In this context a simulation model associated with a spreadsheet cost was elaborated to allow the design of the port system in which will operate containers and vehicles, permitting to test a set of resources levels, for example: the number of reach stackers, trucks and ship-to-shore cranes. The model allows to choose the demand of containers (TEU per year) and vehicles (units per year), number of berths, ship-to-shore cranes, reach stackers, also the other parameters like as the operational average times for each equipment. After the simulation of the port system for a defined period of time, we are able to analyse the design of the port equipments and the operational cost and investments. It may realize with a sensibility analyses on the system parameters and verify those influences in the final cost. (AU) | |