Design and Simulation Study of a Monorail Network for the Inter-terminal Transport

In line with the trend of global transport volume which has increased rapidly over the years, internal transportation in seaports is always done with high frequency. Therefore, there is always a lot of potential for traffic jams as well as huge transportation costs and emissions. Many efforts to streamline inter-terminal container transport (ITT) through the development of automated vehicles and equipment as well as using private transport facilities to overcome these limitations. This paper aims to develop a framework to design, analyze and validate the efficiency of a new ITT system in a port area base on monorail network and automatic vehicle. By setting goals for performance indicators, the results showed that the system was highly efficient with 100% of the containers being delivered to their destination on time. Besides, a series of other performance tracking is provided to give an insight into the system s capabilities.