The public transportation company employed PwC Australia to develop a solution that could provide a customer-centric view of their railway infrastructure and help the company understand the current incident effects on rail network operations and how to improve the situation. PwC consultants decided to build a model of the transportation network that would simulate train movements, incidents, and customers at stations and in trains.
Researchers from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, worked to identify whether the introduction of each container’s ETA would improve the situation with capacity utilization among the supply chain actors in the port of Hamburg, one of world’s top 20 ports in terms of container traffic.
In public transport, bus bunching refers to a group of two or more transit vehicles (such as buses or trains), which were scheduled to be evenly spaced running along the same route, instead running in the same location at the same time. Dave Sprogis, Volunteer Software Developer, and Data Analyst in Watertown, MA, used AnyLogic to confirm his thesis that preventing "Bus Bunching" would improve the experience of public transit bus riders.
SimPlan, a simulation and optimization service provider based in Germany, ran a project with the city of Hanau and Frankfurt University of Applied Science.They built models of municipal electric vehicle fleet operations. In the models, they considered two vehicle types: buses and garbage trucks (both conventional, battery- and fuel-cell-powered). SimPlan used simulation modeling because it can accurately forecast large-scale EV fleet tasks and assess their daily operation.
Bus bunching is a problem faced by transport authorities around the world. SimWell Inc., an industrial engineering company supporting business decisions with simulation, used simulation modeling for transportation system analysis to figure out the best solution to solve the bus bunching problem for RTC, the public transit agency for Quebec City, Canada.
The operator of the railway network of the country wanted to know if rail cargo transportation could compete with auto truck transportation. They wanted to make truck-rail-truck transportation more effective.
The Novoportovskoye oil and gas condensate field is located in the Yamal peninsula and owned by the fourth-largest oil production company in Russia. Oil from the field is transferred via 100km pipeline to the sea terminal at Cape Kamenny, where it is loaded into arctic cargo tanks for further transportation. The main issues in planning tanker transportation in an arctic region are the harsh ice environment and difficult sea conditions.
In CIS regions, passenger railway traffic is a highly specific field. Suburban railway routes are often cut due to their unprofitability. This may have a negative impact, not only on the passengers, but also on the social and economic conditions in the regions. The Russian Central Federal District authorities faced the rail routes reduction problem. They decided to launch alternative bus routes simultaneously with the cancellation of the railway routes in order to reduce adverse impacts.
Distributors, such as retailers, are the intermediaries between producers of products and other entities in the distribution supply chain. They often encounter problems with supply chain configurations and fleet setups. To analyse and optimize this interaction for one of the largest book distributors, engineers from Goldratt Research Labs used simulation and vehicle routing optimization. This case study will provide an overview as to how this was performed.
A public electricity company in France needed to optimize routes to ensure that all orders were delivered by electric trucks on time. They decided to develop a delivery route optimization model using simulation software, visualize the logistics network, and collect statistics. To reflect the real system, the team had to consider trucks’ battery capacity, chargers’ electric power, and many other constraints.