Perspectives on Collaboration Models in Intermodal Inland Waterway Transportation (IIWT)
Simulation gaming approach for barge operators and inland terminal operators
Uswatun Hasanah (TU Delft - Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
Lorant Tavasszy – Mentor
Bart Wiegmans – Mentor
Heide Lukosch – Mentor
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Abstract
Intermodal Inland Waterways Transportation (IIWT) has been the first alternative to reduce the dependency on road transportation in the Netherlands. However, with the growth of freight shipping demand, several problems have been faced by IIWT: small size barge’s congestion and insufficiency of inland terminal handling’s capacity. The idea to implement collaboration models between the involved operators has been suggested which is assumed to give an impact on the performance level. These impacts have not been clearly defined for each different collaboration model. Hence, this study aims to show the different characteristics of each collaboration models and how they affect the performance level of the operators. Simulation gaming is utilized as the research tool with the consideration that this approach can facilitate the interaction between the players and the system. This interaction is important as it illustrates the condition in the real market.