Title

Studies Of The Carbon Footprint For A Port In The Panama Canal

Keywords

Maritime trade; Panama Canal; Shipping; Simulation; System dynamics

Abstract

This paper discusses the development of a distributed hybrid simulation modeling environment for the carbon footprint of a port system in Panama using the High-Level Architecture (HLA). Balboa Port is the largest port in Latin America with a growth rate of 14% in the last three years. A calibrated discrete model of the port was developed to represent the security gate operations and heavy duty diesel vehicle (HDDV) truck deliveries. Another discrete-event federate represents the vessels arriving at the different terminals. Finally, a simple continuous simulation model is a federate that contributes to measure the carbon footprint due to the operations in the port. The carbon footprint continuous simulation model can specify an estimate of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that originate from the delivery of cargo load containers. In addition, estimation of the GHG emissions is also performed for the HDDV truck deliveries using the discrete-event federate as the source of the required events. The distributed hybrid simulation environment being built will allow for the execution of the different simulation models that were built by different experts in order to visualize the port operations with higher realism.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2014

Number of Pages

1426-1435

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84910046069 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84910046069

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