Dealing with carbon credit points in city logistics domain: An agent-based modeling approach to implement carbon market based mechanisms derived from Kyoto Protocol

Inter Terminal Transport System Design Using Conveyor Belts for the Port of Rotterdam

Port of Rotterdam is one of the biggest port infrastructures in the world which plays an important role for Dutch economy. While these container flows are handled by the port’s facilities, some containers require second-tier container services (e.g. repair, custom clearance, storage) which usually they are not provided at all of the facilities...

Improving Operational Efficiency of Discrete Production Processes in Large Manufacturing Organizations

In the present time large manufacturing organizations operate on a global scale and thereby form an extremely competitive market. Far going globalization makes markets highly competitive, putting the pressure on these organizations to be more innovative and improve the efficiency of its production processes in order to lower overall costs. These...

The Design of A Synchromodal Freight Transport System

In the current situation, although there are advantages of intermodal freight transport, the performance of intermodal freight transport (IFT) is not good. The market share of IFT is low compared with single-mode road transport. It is necessary to analyze the current operation of IFT system and apply the concept of synchromodal transport to...

Enhancing the efficiency of retail cash handling processes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

During the recent years, electronic payment methods have become more customary and in cases more preferable. Nevertheless, cash remains a popular form of payment due, inter alia, to its ubiquity. Large use of cash is associated with security issues, investment costs, logistics costs of transport and handling cash, personnel costs, and the like....

Organic Food Wholesale Strategies

In the Netherlands, the demand for organic food is on the rise. The organic food chain is characterized by small scale production and has developed independently from conventional food supply chains. The rising demand of organic food confronts the small scale organic sector with logistic challenges. By means of a case study at a wholesale firm...

City logistics and Repast Simphony: An exploratory research in the usability of the agent-based modeling platform Repast Simphony for the City logistics paradigm

This thesis contains the research of the development of an agent-based model (ABM) for the City logistics domain in the Java-based Repast Simphony modeling platform. It was part of the City logistics research at the TU Delft faculty TPM section Transport, logistics and Organization. City logistics is the research domain concerned with the study...

Solving the Bullwhip Effect in Supply Networks by incentivizing behaviour through decentralized Forecast Accuracy Discount agreements: A simulation case study within the Supply Chain of the Technische Unie and Legrand Nederland

Current research towards solutions on the Bullwhip Effect have focused mainly on the systemic and operational causes of the Bullwhip Effect, resulting in solutions that require high levels of organizational integration, central coordination and information sharing. However, Such solutions are not always feasible within actual complex Supply...

An analysis of the operational performance of KLM´s Baggage Turnaround Services.

Since 1919 KLM operates from its Hub at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AAS). Besides the air transport of passengers and cargo, KLM performs ground processes at AAS. Of which one is the handling of the passenger baggage between the airplanes and the baggage handling systems of AAS. Every year KLM’s division of Baggage Turnaround Services (BTS)...

Redesign of the inter sorting centre transport schedule for 24 hours mail at PostNL

Multi-agent model for an Urban Distribution Centre

In a 6 month research at Kyoto University and Delft University of Technology, the urban distribution centre (UDC) was investigated with a multi-agent model to find situations where the UDC can be financial viable. From a literature study the main modeling components were found: commodity estimation, vehicle routing, traffic environment, agent...

Inventory Management - Introducing a Framework to assess Operational Performance.

The Enterprises Systems market has become a significant, billion dollar industry, over the past years. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is an example of an Enterprise System. ERP typically supports logistics, which form a strategic factor in today’s business world. Business intelligence tools, such as the ones incorporated in ERP, are...

Safety Stock: Save stock or save service?

This thesis work provides a stock level advice model. This advice model is based on an analysis of the end-to-end upply chain risks. Creating risk profiles help to generalize and structure the risks. The lead time of FMCG goods industry has often a stochastic character. The advice model generates product specific stock level advices based on...

Heineken in beweging: Onderzoek naar constante verbetering van de prestaties van de vul/verpakkingsafdeling van de Heineken brouwerij in Den Bosch

ApronSim: An architecture for simulating airside-handling operations