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Discrete Event Simulation of Loading Unloading Operations in a Specific Intermodal Transportation Context

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Software Engineering Perspectives and Application in Intelligent Systems ( ICTIS 2017, CSOC 2016)

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With the development of economy, the movement of goods toward urban areas has already become an important issue. For that purpose, we have seen an increasing interest for developing Intermodal transportation mode. In this work, we focus on the loading/unloading operations in a specific context of an Intermodal transportation mode. We aim to develop a sophisticated discrete event simulation tool in order to simulate these operations. The paper describes the different steps and objects implemented in the study to develop our simulation model. The structure of the simulation program is also explained. Preliminaries computational results to validate our model are presented and discussed.

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  1. Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis, Université de Tunis, 41, Rue de la Liberté - Bouchoucha, 2000, Bardo, Tunisia

    Ezzeddine Fatnassi

  2. Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Carthage, Université de Carthage - IHEC Carthage Présidence, 2016, Tunis, Tunisia

    Jouhaina Chaouachi

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  1. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic

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Fatnassi, E., Chaouachi, J. (2016). Discrete Event Simulation of Loading Unloading Operations in a Specific Intermodal Transportation Context. In: Silhavy, R., Senkerik, R., Oplatkova, Z.K., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z. (eds) Software Engineering Perspectives and Application in Intelligent Systems. ICTIS CSOC 2017 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 465. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33622-0_39

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