A Y-Type waterway intersection for the Panjin seaport in China

What is it about?

A traffic flow simulation model to estimate the capacity of port navigation by using A Rockwell Arena. Rockwell Arena is mainly used for discrete event system simulation. Indeed, channels should use traffic flow simulation models to estimate the capacity of port navigation. In this paper, Arena simulation has been used to simulate a complex port access channel network.

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Why is it important?

Because the traffic system of the approach system is complex, most of the ports all over the world have different terminals in a harbor with various fleet types, and each fleet has different arrival times due to the stochastic operations in the port, which need to deal with different ship types, with various service levels, tidal windows and other traffic rules. So,We built a traffic simulation model to simulate the real state of the access channel with a Y-type waterway intersection, taking into account the stochastic arrival process of different fleet types, weather conditions, and the tidal window as a navigation limit for larger vessels, and we simulated the ship movements from arrival at the port to its berth in the harbor. Moreover, we have illustrated an appropriate simulation model. In this research, the mentioned method can be applied to determine the channel capacity under different sailing speeds before applying them in reality.

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