The arrival process of road trucks is an essential part in simulation systems for container terminals. This study proposes a method for generating arrival events of road trucks. The main issue in this study is how to generate arrivals of road trucks i...
The arrival process of road trucks is an essential part in simulation systems for container terminals. This study proposes a method for generating arrival events of road trucks. The main issue in this study is how to generate arrivals of road trucks in a simulation similar to practice. Practical data collected from a real terminal are analyzed and various distributions on the arrival of trucks are derived. A procedure for generating arrival events of road trucks is suggested. The procedure considers not only transportation of various types of containers but also the combined transportation of containers and the dual cycle operation of trucks. The results of the suggested procedure are compared with those of traditional approaches by simulation studies.