ToGrip - Use case 3 Off-peak road haulage visits at container terminals
report
This research was aimed at understanding the distribution patterns of road hauliers at container terminals and the applicability and potential of logistics concepts that would result in a higher share of vening/night distribution. This research objective is highly relevant since many terminals reach their capacity limits in daily peak hours, resulting in waiting times and/or scarcity of available slots in these hours, whereas the evening and night hours are experienced by substantial underutilisation. Several ports experimented with measures to better balance the truck arrivals over the day, but with limited success. It requires a holistic approach to solve the wider issues in optimising port-hinterland interfaces, single measures may look effective in first instance, but wider deployment may be challenging or the effects may be counterproductive in downstream activities. Nevertheless, just a modest shift of 5%-10% towards the off-peak hours would relieve the pressure and reduce terminal waiting times considerable, so it is worth exploring the concepts, even if the applicability is limited to typical niche markets and scalability is rather limited.
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TNO Identifier
959134
Publisher
TNO
Collation
31 p.
Place of publication
Den Haag